LANCASTER, Pa. — Newly released body-camera footage shows a rare and harrowing scene: a paramedic stabbed multiple times inside her own ambulance while trying to help a man. What began as a 911 call for a suspected overdose led responders to a narrow alley, where a man cried out for help.

Lancaster EMS Paramedic Melanie Kempf says the call nearly cost her life. As she leaned over the gurney to treat an intoxicated patient who claimed he had glass in his foot, he grew agitated, raised his voice and turned violent, Local 12 reported.

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Body-camera footage shows the man suddenly erupting, flailing, kicking and screaming, as Kempf and her partner try to restrain him. Within 20 seconds, the partner calls for

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