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Much like a nagging health condition gasping while climbing flights of train stairs that didnt used to feel like a challenge at all can one day become an urgent problem the Emergency Medical Service workers whod respond if you had a heart attack are facing their own crisis call. New FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker has been publicly sounding an alarm about how the nations largest public prehospital care agency one thats been part of the citys Fire Department since 1996 is in critical condition now as its been overlooked and under supported while responding to a record 1. 6 million calls last year. When I tell people I dont sleep at night this is why Tucker said in a speech last month.