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TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s
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TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s
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TIL about the Freedom House Ambulance Service, how two young Black men from Pittsburgh (the “Unemployables”) became two of the world’s first paramedics. They operated unofficially and as volunteers, and became the model for all EMS. Later, they were entirely forgotten.