Terry Williamson

Terry Williamson is 48 years old and was a firefighter for nearly two decades before making the switch to paramedic in 1999.Williamson is mostly bald with outcrops of hair that look like rocks on a smooth night sea; Robert Duvall would play him in a biopic.
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Today, Williamson is the designated driver and radio operator; Marquez rides in back with the patients.Williamson is working his third straight day.He's 54 hours into a 72-hour stretch during which he'll get a total of eight hours sleep.
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Williamson and a colleague attempt to determine if she has a do-not-resuscitate order.Her family doesn't seem to understand the question.
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That's the fifth hospital to which Marquez and Williamson have delivered patients.
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Williamson has had 21.
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Or as Williamson had put it earlier, activating his siren during a string of calls that sent the paramedics pinballing around the city: "Welcome to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride." * * *As luck, or the "Call Gods" that Williamson laughs about, or just plain chance would have it, the final assignment of the shift arrives extremely early, at about 1:30 a.m. Minutes later, the paramedics arrive at an apartment building, the scene of an alleged assault.The engine crew from nearby Fire Station 22 has arrived already.One of them waves Marquez away before he can make it to the door.

Without breaking stride, Marquez and Williamson continue on.
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Williamson will emerge Tuesday, at 6 a.m.; Marquez will follow a short time later.

"I enjoyed the collection part," said Terry Williamson, a 52-year-old Glendale firefighter who delivered to downtown businesses in the early 1960s.