Before a total of 50 firefighters and medics arrived on the scene, paramedic Ed Aldaco was one of the first to make contact with a man entangled in a mulch-dying machine.

Aldaco, 45, has worked as a Prince George’s County paramedic for 13 years and arrived at the mulch plant at 11 a.m. on April 17. The man was so entangled, Aldaco and others requested more assistance.