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# Left Out In The Cold
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/movies/decibel-securing-your-vote-bipphe/extras/left-out-cold-in9cuz/
- Published: 2026-02-11T20:06:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-12T19:16:55.000Z
- Description: Austin EMS Association President Selena Xie aims to build a better medical system.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Decibel: Securing Your Vote, #ZZZ_Show_167e9b95-93e6-43d7-be23-0561107e33c4, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_9901dc4d-db66-4b20-b2c4-28590f3feac0, #movie-extra

When the winter storm hit, Selena Xie and her Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services colleagues were fighting to make their way through the hazardous streets, answering calls from everything to car wrecks to medical equipment knocked offline by power outages. But Xie says the medical issues people faced aren’t unique to the storm — it just highlighted how fragile the medical system is.