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WITH
HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF EFFORTS
ON THE EAST COAST.
THEIR EMOTIONAL STORY TONIGHT
FROM
STUDIO 15.
SOME FIRST RESPONDERS FROM MULTI
NO CLUE WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO
SEE AS THEY LEFT INDIANA TO HELP
NEED IN NEW JERSEY.
GOVERNOR MITCH DANIELS GOT A
CALL FROM NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR
CHRIS CHRISTIE DAYS BEFORE THE
HURRICANE HIT AND ASKED HIM TO
SEND FIRST RESPONDERS.
JUST HOURS BEFORE HURRICANE
HIT.
THEY
WEREN'T ABLE TO DRIVE THEIR
INSTEAD...
POLICE AND OTHER FIRST
RESPONDERS BROUGHT PEOPLE
THE E-M-TS.
THEY SAY MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO
NEEDED TO BE SEEN WERE SUFFERING
FROM HYPOTHERMIA, NEEDED
MEDICINE BECAUSE THEY LOST
CHEST PAIN.
ONE E-M-T SAYS HE'LL NEVER
FORGET WHAT
((RON SELLARS/EMT :18 "THE ONE
THING I REMEMBER WAS WHEN THEY
PEOPLE OFF BARRIER ISLAND AND
PEOPLE OUT STARING WATCHING
FOR THEIR RELATIVES YOU KNOW.
(PAUSE) IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE.
OF PUT OUR FEELINGS TO THE BACK
AND DID OUR JOBS.
IT HAS HIT ME HARDER SINCE
WE'VE BEEN BACK THEN WHEN I WAS
BOTH E-M-TS I TALKED WITH TODAY
SAID PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY GAVE
THEM
MORE THEN THEY GAVE THEM.
THEY SAY IT'S AN EXPERIENCE
THEY'LL
NEVER FORGET.
AND JUST GOT BACK HOME EARLY
THIS
MORNING.
REUST, NEWSCHANNEL 15.