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For Years, He Has Saved Lives in Rural America. Who Will Take His Place? [1]

['Christopher Maag', 'Ben Cleeton']

Date: 2024-08-28  

Anyone who has spent time in an ambulance with VanCoughnett knows that 14 Grange Avenue is never a fun call. Kevin was Kevin Fuller, a 65-year-old man who would be the first to admit that some days he drinks a few too many beers. He lives with his wife, Valarie, in a second-floor apartment around the corner from the ambulance squad headquarters, and together they call 911 several times a month for a constellation of health concerns.

VanCoughnett and the other medical workers climbed into the ambulance, drove for a minute and parked in front of a tattered gray house that stands on a crab-grass hill. It was 3 p.m. on a hot Sunday in July, and VanCoughnett’s face turned red the moment he left the air-conditioned ambulance.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/nyregion/ambulance-corps-volunteers.html

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