American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl…

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