The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle

This is an ambucycle.

This is the fastest way to reach any medical emergency.

It has everything an ambulance has except for a bed.

You see the defibrillator. You see the equipment.

We all saw the tragedy that happened in Boston.

When I was looking at these pictures,

it brought me back many years to my past

when I was a child.

I grew up in a small neighborhood in Jerusalem.

When I was six years old, I was walking back from school

on a Friday afternoon with my older brother.

We were passing by a bus stop.

we saw a bus blow up in front of our eyes.

The bus was on fire, and many people were hurt and killed.

I remembered an old man

yelling to us and crying to help us get him up.

He just needed someone helping him.

We were so scared and we just ran away.

Growing up, I decided I want to become a doctor and save lives.

Maybe that was because of what I saw when I was a child.

When I was 15, I took an EMT course,

and I went to volunteer on an ambulance.

For two years, I volunteered on an ambulance in Jerusalem.

I helped many people,

but whenever someone really needed help,

I never got there in time. We never got there.

The traffic is so bad. The distance, and everything.

We never got there when somebody really needed us.

One day, we received a call about a seven year old child

choking from a hot dog.

Traffic was horrific, and we were coming from

the other side of town in the north part of Jerusalem.

When we got there, 20 minutes later,

we started CPR on the kid.

A doctor comes in from a block away,

stop us, checks the kid, and tells us to stop CPR.

That second he declared this child dead.

At that moment, I understood that this child died for nothing.