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CSI in the News - CSI Today

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"We didn't do <strong>the</strong> job we had wanted to do, that I wanted to do and everybody else wanted to do," MayorMichael Bloomberg has said.After emigrat<strong>in</strong>g from Paris <strong>in</strong> 1969, Lebanese native Nahmod studied health science at <strong>the</strong> College of StatenIsland and volunteered with an ambulance company <strong>in</strong> Bay Ridge before jo<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> former EmergencyMedical Services as an EMT <strong>in</strong> 1986.Chief Nahmod will face tough challenges almost immediately <strong>in</strong> his new position as Blizzardgate rages:Beyond <strong>the</strong> snow forecast for this weekend, multiple <strong>in</strong>quiries are mov<strong>in</strong>g forward on <strong>the</strong> storm front. SkipFunk, <strong>the</strong> city's director of emergency communications, is look<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>to why <strong>the</strong> dispatch systemunderperformed."Emergency medic<strong>in</strong>e, for me, has always been a call<strong>in</strong>g, not a job, and <strong>the</strong> Fire Department has given me<strong>the</strong> opportunity to fulfill this call<strong>in</strong>g," said Nahmod. "I couldn't be happier to take on <strong>the</strong> important role ofoversee<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> world's greatest Emergency Medical Service and I'm honored to have <strong>the</strong> opportunity."© 2011 SILive.com. All rights reserved.Page 148 of 157

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