EMS History

Major Emergency Response Vehicle (MERV) at the
New York 1964-65 World's Fair Unisphere
.

Bellevue Hospital's Disaster Unit demonstrates its
latest equipment and staff, circa 1965

Ambulances on scene at a motor vehicle accident on the
Roosevelt Drive, Manhattan, circa 1969.
Still in use at that time
were the pole and pad stretchers.

The first Paramedic class poses outside of Jacobi Hospital, July 1974

EMTs manned mopeds during the New York City 1980 Transit Strike.
FDNY*EMS crews operating on scene at the
Bruckner Interchange in the Bronx in 1998.
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1980 Coffin Demonstration