33 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com EMS DADS In mid-September 2011, 32-year-old Pete Levine jumped into an emergency responder vehicle and rushed off with a siren wailing overhead on his first medical call for Charleston County EMS. Levine had only been on the job for a short time, but was now speeding toward Dorchester Road where a multivehicle rollover had suddenly put multiple people in harm’s way. As Levine felt the adrenaline and precious seconds ticking by, he could only hope and pray that he and other responders would not arrive too late. “I remember pulling up on the scene and being struck by the calmness of the experienced police officers, firefighters and my EMS co-workers despite the chaos around them,” recalled Levine. Despite his early anxiety, Levine, now 46, came through the moment with the satisfaction of helping to turn a crisis back into a sense of normalcy. Since then, Levine has not only become a father of two Heroic Dads First responder fathers BY L. C. LEACH III our town Paul Sottile giving 2-yearold son Silas an up-close view of a fire engine and miniature uniform.
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