In celebration of National EMS Week 2025, the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) has announced it will hold its 29th annual Second Chance Ceremony on Wednesday 21 May, at 10 a.m. at Liberty Warehouse – 260 Conover Street, Brooklyn.
This event will reunite patients who have survived cardiac arrest with the Paramedics, Emergency Medical Technicians, FDNY EMS Officers, Firefighters, Dispatchers, bystanders and other first responders who helped save their lives.
The FDNY CPR Training Unit offers free compressions-only CPR training throughout the city and has trained more than 200,000 New Yorkers to perform bystander CPR, including more than 80,000 high school students.
The survivors include Ellen Traore, who was born unresponsive and resuscitated by FDNY members and 11-year-old Chance Young, whose school nurse began lifesaving CPR after he went into cardiac arrest while at school.
Several of this year’s survivors received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders before on-duty FDNY EMS members and Firefighters arrived.
In each rescue, the crews provided each patient with proper and efficient care which ultimately saved their life.
The FDNY has shared that its 29th annual Second Chance Ceremony will be held on Wednesday 21 May, reuniting patients who have survived cardiac arrest with the individuals who helped to save their lives.
