It's an empowerment thing, something to save their lives.

We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle.

When you first become an EMT, you are extremely gung-ho, with a sense that you save lives, ... You are the antidote to all of life's miseries. You make people rise from the dead. But when you are an EMT for a length of time, you come to the grim reality that the number of lives that you actually save are small. You stabilize people until they get to the hospital. You make sure they can breathe and don't bleed to death and nothing more.

Our main focus is to uplift the community, and we have done that throughout history.

We'd save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--they're not going to do what they're doing now, all right, so people aren't going to die in the desert.

We think it's very important to make this diagnosis and protect the interests of children to save children's lives and this is why we feel so strongly about this technique.