Paramedic
Ricardo Quinn
Battalion 57
Memorial
Service was
held on September 29, 2001
Ricardo
was a paramedic with FDNY he responded to the call for help
at the World Trade Center. He was last seen at the base of Tower
Two treating the injured. The following information about Ricardo
Quinn was excerpted from: "Limited Help for Families of
Medical Rescue Workers" September 23, 2001, By JIM DWYER
The family car never came home the night of Sept. 11 to Bayside,
and the phone did not ring. So Ginny Quinn was pretty sure that
her husband, Ricardo, had been stuck all night at Elmhurst Hospital
Center, working as a paramedic. The next morning, she said,
she got a call from another paramedic who asked, "Did Rick
make it home?" Her husband, who had a shoulder surgery
this summer and was on a light duty assignment, had not gone
to Elmhurst Hospital. "He just hightailed it over to the
trade center," Mrs. Quinn said. Mr. Quinn was one of eight
paramedics and emergency medical technicians who ran into the
burning towers and did not make it out alive. From other paramedics,
Mrs. Quinn learned that Mr. Quinn ran into Tower 2 and stopped
to bandage a fellow medic who had been hit by falling debris.
He helped load another patient into an ambulance, went back
inside to help, and disappeared. "I know he went in there
thinking of other people," Mrs. Quinn said, referring to
her husband's run into the tower. "The world is missing
a good, good person." She paused. "Well, it's missing
5,000 of them." Pay Tribute to Ricardo Quinn
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