A Staten Island councilman is pushing new legislation that would guarantee city medics have access to body armor vests and yearly self-defense training.
Borrelli’s bills would make it mandatory for FDNY to provide EMTs with body armor vests and self-defense and de-escalation training.The FDNY currently offers body armor to EMTs on a voluntary basis after they complete academy training, but EMTs have long complained the vests don’t fit right or are too old and no longer effective. The agency also provides EMTs self-defense and de-escalation training — but one time only and not yearly as the legislation proposes, according to the medics.
Oren Barzilay, president of Local 2507, the union representing more than 4,100 rank-and-file city EMTs and medics, said his members back both bills, but hopes they’ll be updated with language mandating the FDNY because the material deteriorates. He said his assigned vest is 15 years old and that many other members are using vests much older, so “we don’t know if they’ll save our lives.”How the Post covered the horrific stabbing death last September of veteran FDNY EMT Capt. Alison Russo-Elling.
An FDNY spokeswoman said “as with any proposed legislation, the department will review the bills and work with the councilmembers to improve the safety of our members.”
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