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Vancouver paramedic on front line of COVID-19 crisis has gear stolen

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A Vancouver paramedic can’t go back to work after someone broke into her car and stole her equipment. Annelie Van der Heyden returned to her East Vancouver home on Sunday night after a marathon shift with BC Emergency Health Services.

She said she packed all her gear into a bag rather than keeping it in a locker because she wasn’t sure where her next shift would start. “I brought it home but I didn’t want to bring it into my house and contaminate my house,” she said. “I was tired.

I figured I’d deal with it in the morning.” The next day, she saw that someone had broken into her car and stolen her gear — including two sets of her uniform, a number of masks, and a green stethoscope — from the trunk.

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