WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. – A first responder working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic said he is now fighting to keep his home.
Paramedic Julio Salgado said he has been working for the last 30 days with New York City firefighters in the epicenter of the U.S.
cornavirus battle. "We arrived on the 28th, they registered us, put us on an ambulance and sent us right out with our luggage right out into the field to start working calls," Salgado said. "We didn’t even go to the hotel." He said he was responding to 911 calls in New York City that were a day old due to the backlog of calls and not enough paramedics. "We had a lot of DOA calls -- dead on arrival -- where you just show up, and they were already gone.