A heroic 911 dispatch officer who tried in vain to save the life of a beloved EMT butchered on a Queens street was awarded a new FDNY medal in her honor Wednesday.
Capt. Alison Russo, 61, was just a block away from her firehouse on Sept. 29, 2022, when madman Peter Zisopoulos, 34, stabbed her nearly 20 times in an unprovoked attack, police said.
As Russo-— a veteran paramedic who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks — bled out, EMS Capt. Edgar Baez was overseeing his team at the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Dispatch in The Bronx.
Multiple 911 calls were coming in from Astoria reporting a “firefighter stabbed.”
“The first five or six minutes, we didn’t know who it was, because she was in a light blue shirt. It all came as a report of a firefighter stabbed,” Baez told The Post on Wednesday, at the FDNY’s annual Medal Day Ceremony in Queens.
Baez immediately left his office and directed a massive response to the crime scene.
“Using 26 years of intuition and experience, Captain Baez helped untangle communications and determine what was needed,” Capt. Andrew Brown said while presenting Baez with the “Captain Alison Russo North Star Medal.”
Baez, who started out as an EMT with Russo, called the award a “really big honor.”
He remembered Russo as a motherly figure who was “always looking out for the members.”
If she knew about the award ceremony, she’d think it was a joke.
“That’s the kind of attitude she had,” Baez said.
“She wasn’t much about getting recognition either,” he told The Post.
“She was more about making sure everybody was just well when they went home.”
Zisopoulos was charged with second-degree murder and weapon possession raps following the heinous random stabbing.
He was committed to a psychiatric institution on Dec. 16, 2022 after being deemed unfit to stand trial, the Queens District Attorney’s Office said.
The award named for Russo was one of two new FDNY medals presented this year.
The other was named the “William P. Moon II Medal of Life” in honor of fallen firefighter William P. Moon.
The 47-year-old dad of two died after falling during a training accident at his Brooklyn firehouse in December 2022.
His widow Kristina Moon accepted the award at the ceremony.
