Hundreds, if not thousands of people have been affected by the tragedy at Sandy Hook. Obviously, the victims, teachers, students and the families of those involved need all the support they can get.
But there is another group of people who also need help and those are those who were first responders to the school.
From Firehouse.com: While the people of Newtown do their best to cope with loss and preserve the memories of their loved ones, another class of residents is also finding it difficult to move on: the emergency responders who saw firsthand the terrible aftermath of last week's school shooting.
Firefighter Peter Barresi was driving through Newtown on Friday when police cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring raced toward his oldest son's elementary school. After he was sent to Sandy Hook school himself, he saw things that will stay with him forever.
With anguished parents searching for their children, he prepared to receive the wounded, but a paramedic came back empty-handed, underscoring the totality of the massacre. Barresi, whose own son escaped unharmed, later discovered that among the 26 dead were children who played baseball with his son and had come to his house for birthday parties.
"For some of us, it's fairly difficult," said Barresi, of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co. "Fortunately most of us did not go in." http://www.firehouse.com/news/10845301/newtown-conn-first-responders-carry-heavy-burdens
The first responders- the cops, EMT's. paramedics, firefighters etc. all saw gruesome scenes and possibly knew some of the kids and adults who were gunned down. These men and women are going to suffer also by the things they had seen. So, please, if you are saying prayers for the kids and teachers, also think of the first responders who had to witness unbelievable horror.
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