Did you know firefighters can't help you even if they are right in front of you, dying, unless you call 911?
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Three times people banged on the door of the Northeast Washington firehouse seeking help for a man who had collapsed. Each time, the rescuers inside turned them away.
In a nearby parking lot, Marie Mills cradled her 77-year-old father in her arms. “Help is on the way,” she told him. “There are firefighters right across the street.”
But the firefighters didn’t come. When she spotted one standing in an open bay door, she ran to the curb. “Can you just come and help my dad?” she screamed. “What are you going to do, let my dad die in the street?”
Mills said she was told by people who tried to help that the firefighters said that they couldn’t respond unless someone called 911. It took 15 to 20 minutes for help to show up on Saturday, she said, and then arrived only because a D.C. police officer flagged down an ambulance that happened to pass by. Her father, Medric Cecil Mills Jr., died of an apparent heart attack at MedStar Washington Hospital Center that afternoon. He had worked for the District parks department for over four decades and liked his job so much that he hadn’t retired.
i hate procedures like this that are 'designed to promote efficiency' but only for the higher ups who have to do a lot of paper work, when all they do is create problems for the people at the front of the job.
Would you not just phone 911 the first time you sent people over and they returned with the specific instructions to call? It's a banal rule, but that seems like the obvious thing to do. She wasted a lot of time. Surely one of the three groups of people she flagged down had a cell phone
Would you not just phone 911 the first time you sent people over and they returned with the specific instructions to call? It's a banal rule, but that seems like the obvious thing to do. She wasted a lot of time. Surely one of the three groups of people she flagged down had a cell phone
they were right across the street from the firefighters though... i feel like it's faster if they had just come when the people asked them to.
i feel like it's faster if they had just come when the people asked them to.