FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo, 44, a 14-year veteran of the department and mother of five, was killed Thursday night in the line of duty. Her killer has been arrested and charged with murder.
On Friday, like EMS providers everywhere, I tried to make sense of this terrible tragedy in an EMS1 article (Learning from the tragic death of FDNY EMT killed by ambulance hijacker) and a conversation with Chris Cebollero on a special episode of the Inside EMS podcast. Dave Konig has also reflected on Arroyo’s death.
