The Frontline Worker: Covid calls just part of the job for firefighters

‘You have to assume every patient is Covid-positive and put on full PPE — suits, masks, goggles, gloves — before going in to treat someone,’ says fifth-generation firefighter Kevin Higgins of Ballyvolane Fire Station in Cork. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

Cork City Fire Brigade has stepped up to help overstretched paramedics throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, facing risks of infection themselves as they respond to medical emergencies.