You get on the truck in the morning and you don't get back until late at night.

Patient has been taken out of the warm zone and placed in the ambulance unit.

It just happened to be my night. The guys called us from downstairs from a cell phone and told us that they saw two men trying to break in.

For us, every night is a heavyweight bout. You see guys concentrating more, getting more excited, getting more upset. We've got no room for error anymore.

Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.