'We'll miss him': Beloved paramedic retiring after 34 years in Port Alberni

'We'll miss him': Beloved paramedic retiring after 34 years in Port Alberni

At 68, Port Alberni’s Diljeet Hundal still chokes up with emotion, when he recalls becoming a paramedic. “It didn’t seem real. It was like ‘Wow, look what we can do, look what we’re given the privilege to do,'” Hundal tells CHEK News. Now after 34 years of saving lives as a paramedic in Port Alberni, Hundal will retire this Friday, May 29. “It’s a bit of an anomaly you know. You don’t usually see paramedics start in their own community, where th…