EMS Week: Somers Firefighters Join Memorial Ride

Three members of the Somers Volunteer Fire Department are participating in the 2016 National EMS Memorial Bike Ride for National EMS Week.

The Capital-to-Capital ride, a 15-day cycling adventure and mental health campaign that started in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 7, joined the 2016 National EMS Memorial Bike Ride for National EMS Week in New York City Tuesday.

A Memorial Mass was held at St Patrick’s Cathedral to honor fallen EMS brothers and sisters, before participants biked to FDNY EMS Station 4 for a luncheon.

The Ride will continue to Washington, D.C. as participants memorialize and celebrate the lives of those EMS members who serve, those who have become sick or injured while performing their duties, and those who have died in the line of duty.

This is the 42nd annual EMS Week. "Back then, EMS was a new profession, and EMS practitioners had only just started to be recognized as a critical component of emergency medicine and the public health safety net," say the folks at NAEMT.

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