“Police are a fraternity, fire personnel are a brotherhood, and EMTs are family”

A 2015 newspaper story mentioned “an old saying in the EMT business is that police are a fraternity, fire personnel are a brotherhood and EMTs are family.” It’s not known how widespread this “old saying” is. There have been T-shirts with, “EMTs Don’t Become Friends—They Become Family.”
 
 
SunFrog shirts
EMTs Are Family
EMTs Don’t Become Friends
They Become Family
   
New Haven (CT) Register
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By Brian Zahn, New Haven Register
POSTED: 11/15/15, 9:52 PM EST
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Hurlburt said an old saying in the EMT business is that police are a fraternity, fire personnel are a brotherhood and EMTs are family.