Peter James rushed to help during the Port Arthur massacre: ‘Some people were falling apart. I would become one of them’ (opens in new tab)

When the paramedic entered the Tasmanian cafe where a gunman had killed scores of people, he was warned he would never be the same again. The warning proved trueWhen Martin Bryant drove his yellow Volvo to Port Arthur’s historic site, its boot stuffed with high-powered and casually acquired weapons, paramedic Peter James was living in Launceston. It was 28 April 1996.Peter was on holiday at the time, but when he heard sketchy reports of a shooting on the radio, he called the critical incident...