Police cars, motorcycles, firetrucks and ambulances flooded downtown Minneapolis Thursday afternoon to honor health care workers and Hennepin County EMS paramedic Karl Meek, who died Tuesday.

The procession shut down what little traffic there was in downtown Minneapolis, as emergency vehicles circled Hennepin Healthcare with lights and sirens blaring. Hospital workers in scrubs and masks waved to the parade from the skyway.

Masked Hennepin County paramedics and EMS workers stood at attention, lining Seventh Street as Sheriff Dave Hutchinson walked the line to offer his condolences and the parade of vehicles stopped to pay their respects.

Gallery Fullscreen Slide Previous Slide 6 of 6 Hennepin County EMS workers watch emergency vehicles pass by to honor a paramedic who died earlier in the week. Evan Frost | MPR News 1 of 6 Emergency personnel and vehicles from all over Hennepin County are lead by two University of Minnesota police on motorcycles through downtown Minneapolis, to honor healthcare workers and commemorate a Hennepin County Paramedic who died this week on Thursday. Evan Frost | MPR News 2 of 6 Healthcare workers at HCMC wave and watch emergency vehicles parade underneath them from a hospital skyway in Minneapolis. Evan Frost | MPR News Next Slide

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