Brooklyn's All-Volunteer Ambulance Corps

Mean Streets
"In 1988, every other call was crack- or drug-related," recalls Robinson. "People were getting shot, stabbed, seizures, heart attack, comas — and the ambulance would take forever to come. We were running through the street with oxygen tanks on our backs, trauma kits in our hands — we were the laughingstock of the community."

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