By the end of an eight-hour shift in the Bronx, paramedic Barbara Aziz had treated a man who had broken his leg falling from a building, revived another man who stopped breathing after a heroin overdose and cradled a moments-old baby girl born unexpectedly in a public-housing apartment.
The FDNY is joining other departments in purchasing smaller, more agile vehicles for certain types of calls.
The "fly cars" allow paramedics to respond to priority calls without taking patients to the hospital. An ambulance will respond along with a fly car to handle transport.
Fly cars comprise 10 specially equipped SUVs that were rolled out last year as part of a pilot program that was intended to improve emergency response in The Bronx, which had the most medical calls per person in the past year.