“Our raises were minuscule compared to what other first responders got,” he told The Post on Wednesday, referring to the $4,000 increase that raised the starting salary for an FDNY EMT to $39,386 in fiscal year 2022.”

This salary is shameful.

Even more shameful is using this meager increase to justify a huge bump in costs to people with no options or means to choose anything different. You can’t exactly shop around if you’re in cardiac arrest.