Marissa Hays is a firefighter/paramedic in Alabama. In 2022, Hays received an Award of Valor for participating in a live rescue during a working residential fire. Hays studied EMS at Gadsden State Community College in Alabama, and has been accepted to the University of Alabama at Birmingham for the fall 2024 semester with a major in neurobiology. Her goal is to attend medical school to become an emergency room physician and EMS medical director.