John Mondello was found dead near Astoria Park on Friday, according to police
that the surge in deaths amid the coronavirus crisis took a toll on the EMT prior to his death.
“He told me he was experiencing a lot of anxiety witnessing a lot of death, he’d feel it was a heavy experience when he’d fail to save a life,” Al Javier said. A fellow FDNY EMS Academy graduate, who described Mondello as “always very peppy, very happy," told the outlet that the EMT had previously reached out and said that he didn’t like his new job. The friend said the two discussed the “chaos” of the pandemic and and how they were seeing “people passing away right in front of you."
"We don’t have the same union benefits as other city workers. It’s really stressful to work long hours and not get paid as much,” the friend told theRELATED VIDEO: Doctors and Nurses Are Having 'Hard Discussions with Their Families' About Worst-Case Scenarios During Pandemic
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