From the September 10, 2021, Chicago Tribune.
Karen Lamanna was a paramedic on an EMS unit summoned from the Bronx. She and her partner got separated amid the confusion of Manhattan's unfamiliar streets. But she made her way to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal where she heard pleasure craft and tugs were arriving.
She bandaged civilian victims before they were ferried to hospitals on Staten Island or New Jersey.
"A lot of firefighters wanted to be treated, and they went right back to the scene," Lamanna recalled. "There was just no way of keeping them out."
When things slowed down, Lamanna was able to phone a friend and try to locate her partner. Two days later, they met and exchanged hugs.
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