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‘We’re Going to Need Everybody’: Recordings Captured Response to N.F.L. Crisis

When Damar Hamlin’s heart stopped during a game on Monday night, medical personnel can be heard responding to the kind of emergency the league hoped it would never face.

An ambulance carrying injured Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin left the field in Cincinnati on Monday.Credit...Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images

The radio traffic moments after Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night in Cincinnati crackled with urgency.

“I don’t like how he went down,” one person said on a channel that appears to have included medical personnel on the sidelines.