The courageous members of the Uniformed EMTs and Paramedics Local 2507 and Uniformed EMS Officers Local 3621 have done city workers proud.

They have rescued people from the smoke-filled top floors of crumbling buildings and pulled an injured driver from a flaming vehicle. They crawled into the wreckage of a collapsed deck to treat maimed victims. On Sept. 11, two of them lost their lives saving others.

The Fire Dept. honored 39 of these heroic workers May 17 at the Emergency Medical Service’s Medal Day ceremonies. Emergency Medical Technicians Daniel E. Stewart and David Karic received Christopher J. Prescott Medals — the highest award in EMS — for rescuing two people in Brooklyn from a burning building.

EMT Stewart also worked long hours at the 9/11 site, recovering and identifying bodies. Sadly, he took his own life in June 2002. His friends said he became despondent after his grim mission at the World Trade Cener.

“It’s just sad that he left us prematurely,” said Local 2507 President Patrick J. Bahnken. “A lot of people saw a lot of things that day and in the weeks and months that followed. Some people were overwhelmed by it.”

Also receiving the Prescott Medal were Gamaliel Bonilla, for pulling a driver from a burning car; John J. Manning, for rescuing four teenagers from a third floor apartment fire; and Ronald G. Grubert and David T. Weissman, for rescuing two victims who were seriously injured when a deck collapsed.

The Tracy Allen-Lee Medal went to EMTs Richard Blas for 2000, Albert J. Pruden and Jonathon Rosen for 2002, and Ralph Winburn and Efrain F. Carrasquillo for 2003.

The department awarded the Chief James Scullion Medal, its third-highest honor, to Lieut. Joanne Miller and EMTs Frankie Aviles, Merritt A.A. Grant, Bennie Guzman, Adam G. Lorenz, Michael Pagan and Lydia Wolfe.

The recipients of the Lieut. Kirby McElhearn Medal were Lieuts. Frank Andino, William Gleason and Thomas Schulz and EMTs Jose Carrasquillo, Kendall Guerilus, Timothy P. Putich and James Rawcliffe.

The Jack Pintchik Medal went to Paramedics Peter Morales and Edgar Baez, EMTs Steven Correa, Gilbert DeJesus, Martin Ortiz, Ron Pfeffer and William Michael Wright; Deputy Chief James P. Martin and Lieut. John Ryan.

Special Medical Affairs Commendations went to Paramedics Benjamin Boone and William L. Delaney. Veteran dispatching EMT Moishe S. Schwartz — known as the “Voice of Brooklyn Radio” — received a Dispatch Commendation. “We are extremely proud of all of these members,” said Local 3621 Pres. Donald Rothschild.

— Alfredo Alvarado