{"id":15339,"date":"2017-09-25T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=15339"},"modified":"2019-06-01T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:53:07","slug":"fdny-emt-honored-20-years-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/fdny-emt-honored-20-years-death\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY EMT Honored 20 Years After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> \u2014Tracy Lee was 17 months into her EMT position when she contracted HIV in the line of duty.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The first Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) to contract HIV while treating a patient in New York City was honored 20 years after her death.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/09\/25\/first-nyc-emt-to-contract-hiv-on-job-honored-20-years-after-death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FOX News<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span>Tracy Lee was 17 months into her EMT position when she contracted HIV from a patient who was bleeding to death. The station reported that a memorial stone marker was placed outside an East Harlem EMS station for EMT Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s glove was ripped when she was pulling a man into a hallway for treatment, and her blood mixed with his. She tested positive for HIV in May 1994.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;I was 31 when she died,\u201d Lee\u2019s widower, Victor Lee, said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re that age, you think you\u2019re invincible. We were going to grow old together and have kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee\u2019s request to have her diagnosis listed as a line-of-duty illness was denied, but Lee continued to work in the offices of the FDNY until she died in Sept. 1997. The next year, New York passed a law requiring HIV contracted on the job to automatically be designated as a line-of-duty injury for responders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still think about her every day,\u201d retired EMS Lt. and Lee\u2019s co-worker Adelaide Connaughton said. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been 20 years. It seems like yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[divider style=&#8221;4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Want EMS and air medical tips sent straight to your inbox? Get <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Net<\/strong><\/span> newsletter. Sign up here (it&#8217;s free):<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>[shortcode-variables slug=&#8221;optin-form&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The first Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) to contract HIV while treating a patient in New York City was honored 20 years after her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":15340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15339"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}