Albany, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Governor Hochul has ordered flags on all state government buildings to be flown at half-staff on Thursday, September 4, in honor of Kevin M. Robert, a long-time flight paramedic who died in the line of duty last week. The flags will be lowered from sunrise to sunset.<\/p>\n
Governor Hochul said,<\/p>\n
Kevin Robert answered the call to serve his community and provided aid in a time of need to countless New Yorkers throughout his career as a paramedic. Today we are sending our deepest condolences to his loved ones, his colleagues, and the entire Mechanicville community as they honor his life and legacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Robert was a Certified Flight Paramedic with 15 years of service at Air Method-Life Net of New York. He was a founder of the John Ahearn Rescue Squad in Mechanicville and served as a paramedic for several ambulance services, including the Clifton Park & Halfmoon Emergency Corps and Malta-Stillwater EMS. Additionally, he was a paramedic instructor at Hudson Valley Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albany, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Governor Hochul has ordered flags on all state government buildings to be flown at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[109782,5229,9903,93789,109784,109783,109780,109781,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7718,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-198750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-method-life-net","tag-america","tag-governor-hochul","tag-half-staff","tag-hudson-valley-community-college","tag-john-ahearn-rescue-squad","tag-kevin-m-robert","tag-mechanicville","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-paramedic","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115144391706783949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}