House-fire injuries sidelined his career. Now, this Memphis firefighter is caring for fellow burn patients.
“I had the best nurses and surgeons,” Anton “AJ” Hill Jr. said of his care team at Regional One Health’s Firefighters Burn Center. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Two years after former Memphis firefighter Anton “AJ” Hill Jr. suffered severe burns when a building collapsed on him, he’s caring for patients alongside the professionals who saved his life at Regional One Health’s Firefighters Burn Center.
Hill, 25, works as a medical technician at the only comprehensive burn center within a 400-mile radius of Memphis. It provides lifesaving care for patients who require emergency and intensive burn treatment as well as wound treatment, plastic surgery and rehabilitation.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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