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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'emergencyresponder'

June 12, 2008

Yesterday, it was reported it took 51 minutes for an ambulance to respond to a 911 call about an 88-year-old woman who fell at East 55th Street and Lexington Avenue because the ambulance had been dispatched to Manhattan from Staten Island. The incident outraged the FDNY (which is conducting an internal investigation), Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, a witness who helped the lady--pretty much everyone except the fall victim herself! The Daily News contacted the woman,......

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