Critical Care Flight Paramedic in Saratoga County suffers fatal medical emergency mid-flight

VIDEO: A Capital Region Critical Care Flight Paramedic who has had decades of service lost his life doing what he did best, saving lives. The community discussed their memories of the hero taken too soon.

โ€œHe was a mentor to many people. He was an educator, and he was a clinician that was a paramedicโ€™s paramedic,โ€ said Saratoga County EMS Coordinator Mike McEvoy.

On Wednesday night while tending to a patient in the sky, 55-year-old Kevin Robert unexpectedly suffered a medical emergency himself.

โ€œHe picked up a patient in the northern part of the county and was flying to Albany Medical Center with that patient, and the medical emergency that he had occurred just after takeoff. They were able to make a quick left hand turn and land at Saratoga Hospital, where our fire department, paramedics were there to meet the helicopter and began work on Kevin,โ€ explained McEvoy.

WTEN-TV ABC 10 Albany

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