mr. brabander. where do you work? >> i am a paramedic. >> how long have you been a paramedic with the ems? >> i started in june of 2017. >> is your title paramedic? >> yes. >> is that been the case for the past three to four-year period? have bun a paramedic? >> yes. >> what is the training that goes into being a paramedic? >> prior to becoming a paramedic, you have to be an emt which is a fairly short course. then paramedic school was about 12-months long. >> just to back you up, you have to be an emt first. what is an emt? >> it's just a lower level certification, a lot more limited in your scope and skills and what you can do. to give an example, my emt is a six-credit college course. >> so you attended it in college? >> no, i did it in high school. >> let's talk about what you went through? >> i attended an emt course my senior year of high school. i started volunteering where i grew up. >> was that while you were still in high school? >> yeah, pretty much as i was graduating i started that. >> so you said there i