This First Responder Volunteered Hundreds Of Hours: Darien Hero

DARIEN, CT — When times are tough, heroes emerge. We all know someone who's making a difference right now as we live through unprecedented and changing times.

Here at Patch, we've launched an initiative to help recognize these heroes making a difference in their communities. Together with Ring, we’re working to let all your neighbors know about these outstanding people and their stories.

This submission comes from Diane Schmidt-Fellner who nominated Katherine Mancini of Darien. Mancini volunteered more than 350 hours as a first responder with Darien EMS.

Name: Katherine Mancini

State: CT

Home town: Darien

Hero's job: Fire/emergency response

Relationship to nominee: Katherine is a First Responder with Darien EMS

Reason for recognition: Katherine has volunteered over 350 of hours on ambulance duty during the COVID crisis putting her health on the line. In addition, as head of OSHA , she spent hundreds more hours procuring PPE and providing training for everyone in our corps !

One thing to know: Katherine is generous with her time, talent and humor and we needed all of those very much in the past 5 months!

Thank you for all you do, Katherine!

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