E.M.T. Christopher J Prescott Playground (Staten Island)
Present name:Huguenot Playground
Location:Playground at the northeast corner of Edith Avenue and Irvington Street, adjacent to I.S. 7.
Honoree: Christopher Prescott (1972-1994) joined the Emergency Medical Service in 1993 and was assigned to Station 34 on Pennsylvania Avenue. On June 17, 1994, while attending the victims of a car accent at Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue, a drunken driver crashed into the accident scene, fatally injuring EMT Prescott. He was the first EMT killed in the line of duty since the creation of the agency in 1970.
LL:1997/31