Former NYC Paramedic shares her 9/11 experience

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — It has been 24 years since the September 11 attacks in New York City.

What You Need To Know • Ellen Leichert was a paramedic in NYC during the 9/11 attacks • She is now a psychiatric nurse practitioner in the VA Bay Pines Health Care System • Leichert wanted to share her story to let others know that they're not alone • SEE ALSO: FDNY Captain says '9/11 is always with me'

Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives that day, but without our first responders, it could have been many more.

Ellen Leichert is a psychiatric nurse practitioner in the VA Bay Pines Health Care System.

Before moving to Florida in 2005, she was a paramedic in NYC.

She spent 12 years in that job, but September 11, 2001, is a day she still remembers vividly.

“We pulled under the Brooklyn