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Less than 5% of emergency medical service workers are African-American.

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The emergency medical services (EMS) system was originally founded by a Black community in Philadelphia, but Black workers are significantly underrepresented in the EMS workforce in the early 2000s.

These percentages will not begin to change until 2017.