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Wed 22 Dec, 2010 08:11 am
A dog-lover EMT and the fire chief, who professed a cat-loving wife, assured me they had only taken a couple of breaths before passing. This is a sentence I was reading , and I can not tell wether the EMT and fire chief were the same person or not?
Can you tell me?
No, EMT means emergency medical technician. Although a fire chief may be qualified as an EMT, he or she would always be referred to by the rank of fire chief.
By the way, the sentence doesn't make sense. What is meant by "passing?"
@Setanta,
In the context, the author's house caught fire and his lovely kitties all died. So passing here means dead.
@Nancy88,
OK, if you want to use "passing" to mean died, the expression is "passing away" or "passed away."
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