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DENVER — Denver Police Officer Antonio Lopez Jr. remained in critical condition Wednesday night. He was still fighting to stay alive.

Some of the first responders shared their stories about helping him during those first critical moments. Surgeons said if they hadn’t done what they did, he likely would not have made it to this point.

Denver Health paramedics were on scene within one minute after the shooting and the got him to the hospital 11 minutes later.

They say their training kicked in immediately.

They also said a Denver police officer had already placed a tourniquet on one of Lopez’ legs. The paramedics put another on his other leg, loaded him into the ambulance and rushed him to the hospital.

“So you collect yourself, disconnect yourself emotionally, take care of the emergency situation and stabilizing the patient,” Paramedic Dustin Morgan said. “They`re our brothers, our sisters, and so we see them as family, we treat them as such.”

Here’s an impressive statistic about the job Denver Health paramedics face. They respond to 105,000 calls every year, transporting 80,000 patients to hospitals.