Students profiled 20 years ago discuss the long-lasting impact of collegiate EMS

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Houston firefighter Jim Schaferling has been a paramedic for 23 years. During that time, he's worked his fair share of sick-person calls and house fires. However, when it comes to one of the worst calls he's ever run, well, that happened when he was a college student working for Texas A&M University EMS, an ALS care provider staffed by college students. Even today, he said he still thinks of that call, part of what he termed "quite the experience for a bunch of 18-22 year olds" who worked cardiac arrests, suicide attempts, burn victims and violent assaults, because most were fellow students around the same age. But back to the call. It was after a football game, and a family of five was leaving the campus airport when they crashed into the fire training academy next to the airport.