[Responsibility2nd]

I had a hard time understanding how this could have happened. Then I see what city it happened in.

[TomServo]

unions

[sickoflibs]

They probably got sued for doing it the last time.

[Da Coyote]

Ya know, if a meteor hit DC, it’s be the single greatest improvement nature could provide the world.

[tioga]

I know a paramedic in DC. I find this hard to believe.

[Vigilanteman]

Look for the Union label.

[stanne]

If getting sued is worse than this, I guess...

why didn’t the firefighters just call 911?

[DeWalt]

No excuse can justify this. Fire the entire house.

[Red Badger]

Union rules?...................

[illiac]

But over 80% of those in DC support zero...

[Logical me]

This is why communists liberal America is finished and may never come back. We have moved so close to Nazism that it scares me that millions of Americans have no idea. Ignorance has beep pushed by the communists Democratic party for years and the truth may never reach these brain dead idiots.

[cableguymn]

Death panel...

[jazusamo]

In the fire service that’s known as a “still alarm” and it’s criminal the crew didn’t respond.

[kcvl]

The District’s fire department and its chief, Kenneth B. Ellerbe, more recently have faced scrutiny after problems that raised questions about patient care. On New Year’s Day 2013, a 71-year-old man died of a heart attack after waiting more than 30 minutes for an ambulance on a day when one-third of the firefighters on duty had called in sick. In March, a D.C. police officer who was struck by a car waited 15 minutes for an ambulance; authorities later found that three ambulances were improperly out of service.

Kenny Lyons, who represents paramedics in a separate labor union, said that emergency workers are barred from “self-dispatching” — such as responding to calls on their own— but that nothing stops them from rendering help or investigating a request from a citizen.

“If you see an incident occurring in front of you, you have a duty to go over an investigate,” Lyons said. “What bothers me in this case is it appears they didn’t even go and check.”

Marie Mills said that she and her father were at a shopping center on Rhode Island Avenue NE and had just dropped off a broken computer at a repair shop. They were walking out, chatting and joking about her returning to college, and he told her, “You get them, college girl.” Just then he stopped talking and tumbled to the pavement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/man-77-dies-after-collapsing-near-dc-fire-station-and-not-getting-immediate-aid/2014/01/29/13b44662-88fe-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html

[pgkdan]

One expert says that while emergency workers can't "self-dispatch" and respond to calls on their own, if they see trouble, they "have a duty to go over and investigate." Adds the deputy mayor for public safety, "They don't wait to be called."

Ummm...seems that they DO wait to be calld.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

To the deputy mayor...yes they do!!!

[duffee]

“They don’t wait to be called.”

Apparently they do.

[Kartographer]

[Maudeen]

Certainly exhibited willful and wanton conduct . . .course of action which [shows actual or deliberate intention to harm] [or which, if not intentional,] [shows an utter indifference to or conscious disregard for (a person’s own safety) (and) (the safety of others)].

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Government employees will do just as well with our healthcare.

[TurboZamboni]

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”-Thomas Sowell