A Pulse Nightclub Responder Confronts A New Crisis: PTSD

Gerry Realin, left, and his wife, Jessica, are working to get first responders workers’ compensation benefits in Florida. (Photo by Abe Aboraya/WMFE)
Gerry Realin wishes he had never become a police officer.
Realin, 37, was part of the hazmat team that responded to the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 12, 2016.
He spent four hours taking care of the dead inside the club.
Now, triggers like a Sharpie marker or a white sheet yank him out of the moment and back to the nightclu