2015 New York Laws
VAW - Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit
Article 2 - (Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit) COVERAGE AND BENEFITS
11-B - Hazardous exposures.

 11-b. Hazardous  exposures. If, as a result of services performed in
  line of duty, a volunteer ambulance worker is exposed  to  or  comes  in
  contact  with  any poisons, gases, x-rays, radium, radioactive materials
  or other potentially harmful substances or matter, the captain or  other
  executive  officer  of  the  ambulance  department,  volunteer ambulance
  company or ambulance district of which he is a member may authorize  the
  volunteer ambulance worker to obtain such examinations, tests, treatment
  and  care  as  are  immediately  necessary  to  determine  whether he is
  injured.  Any such authorization may be granted prior to the giving of a
  notice of injury under this chapter. In any  such  case,  the  volunteer
  ambulance  worker  shall  be  deemed  to  have been injured and shall be
  entitled to treatment and care and disability benefits  as  provided  in
  this chapter.