09/11/2026
Today, we pause to remember the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001, and the first responders who answered the call without knowing what the day would ask of them.
Hundreds of EMTs and paramedics responded to Lower Manhattan that morning. Ambulances filled the streets surrounding the World Trade Center as EMS crews established triage and treatment areas, cared for the injured, assisted with evacuations, and prepared for thousands of patients.
Among those who responded were eight on-duty EMTs and paramedics who would not return home:
(Paramedic) Keith Fairben — New York-Presbyterian Hospital
(Paramedic) Carlos R. Lillo — FDNY EMS, Battalion 49
(EMT) Yamel Merino — MetroCare Ambulance
(EMT) Richard Allen Pearlman — Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps
(Paramedic) Ricardo J. Quinn — FDNY EMS, Battalion 57
(EMT) Mario Santoro — New York-Presbyterian Hospital
(EMT) Mark Schwartz — Hunter Ambulance
(EMT) David Marc Sullins — Cabrini Medical Center
They came from different agencies and wore different uniforms, but they shared the same mission: to help people in need.
While others were desperately trying to escape the danger, EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, police officers, and countless other first responders moved toward it. For EMS, their equipment wasn’t hose lines or ladders—it was cardiac monitors, oxygen, medications, trauma supplies, stretchers, and medical bags. They went because people needed them.
Twenty-five years later, we remember not only what happened that morning, but the courage, service, and sacrifice of those who answered their final call.
Today, Stanley Ambulance Service remembers the EMS professionals who gave their lives, the first responders who served beside them, the victims who never made it home, and all those whose lives were forever changed by September 11, 2001.
Different uniforms. Different agencies. One mission. To save lives.
September 11, 2001 — September 11, 2026
25 Years Later. We Will Never Forget.
