Community members and first-responders lined New York City streets earlier this month to honor a paramedic and retired firefighter from Colorado who passed away in service from the city's coronavirus crisis. Paul Cary, 66, a father of two and grandfather of four, traveled to New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic, to help in the fight against the virus. Anthony Capone, president of the ambulance service that Cary worked for said, "When he responded, it wasn't out of an excitement to be a hero. It was out of understanding that people really needed his services and he could best use them in New York." His stoic calm, dependability and devotion left a lasting impression, although his time in New York was brief. "When someone is in that most dire need and someone responds to that dire need and they do so with great risk to themselves, no fewer things are a greater sign of humanity," Capone said.

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