John Andersen has manned the microphone inside the medical tent near the Boston Marathon finish line for the past 15 years. This year, the tent became a makeshift trauma unit after the devastating bombs that ripped through the crowd. You might imagine a scene of pandemonium. Far from it, says Andersen, who tells People how the volunteer EMTs, doctors, nurses and other medical staff immediately sprang into orderly action, literally offering the shirts off their backs to assist victims with severe injuries, even as their own lives were potentially in peril. "There was no chaos at all," says Andersen, a middle-school...
- 4/24/2013
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd
- PEOPLE.com
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