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Logging six hours a week, 22-year-old Olivia DeLorenzo has risen through the ranks at Narberth Ambulance. Soon she’ll reach command, the highest level for volunteers.
Superintendent of Radnor’s police department, Flanagan is also the chief of Narberth Ambulance, an elected position he’s held for 24 years. He’s been with the company for 35 years, joining as a 15-year- old volunteer. The woman is oblivious
to Flanagan—and everyone else, for that matter. She stares at her feet, which are trembling in time with her hands. Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she turns her head. Kneeling there is Narberth Ambulance’s Olivia DeLorenzo. “We’re going to take care of you,” she says.
The woman begins to cry.
A22-year-old senior year at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, DeLorenzo has volunteered with Narberth Ambulance for almost two years. She wants to become a doctor, a career choice confirmed by the time she’s spent with the company, whose jurisdiction extends through Lower Merion and Haverford townships, Conshohocken, and West Conshohocken.
Logging six hours a week, DeLorenzo has risen through the ranks. Soon she’ll reach command, the highest level for
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