DENVER (KDVR) — One of FOX31's field crews tagged along with Denver Health paramedics at Denver International Airport on Friday to see how they handle the millions of passengers that travel through each year.

"We get anywhere from 20 to 30 calls a day," said Lt. Tom Stoffer, a Denver Health Paramedic at DIA. "But for year to date, we’ve had 8,000 calls for this ten-month period."

He said these paramedics respond to both large-scale and small-scale emergency calls via cars, segways and golf carts, depending on where the patient is located. They take both land calls, which are inside the airport and portions of Pena Boulevard, and air calls, which are on the tarmac.

"Anywhere on the 53 and a half square miles of the airport," Stoffer said.

He explained they respond to a variety of calls

See Full Page