[floriduh voter]

Like I said in my post above, I guess Florida has a great 9-11 EMS System compared to the rest of the country. When a Pinellas County resident has an emergency, the fire dept. and ambulance both arrive quickly; faster than I could drive to a hospital and while driving, mom can't do anything for the child.

These are my last comments on this subject. States not blessed like Florida to have a good EMS system, they don't know what they're missing.

[Peach]

We had a great EMS system in CT, too. You could call from your phone and they'd helicopter to where you were in your car at the time. We didn't have to wait for an ambulance but could at least get part-way to where the hospital was located. (I wasn't trying to argue with you about the fact of whether or not it was smart of the mother to take her child to the hospital rather than call an ambulance and hope you didn't perceive it that way).

[freeper12]

>>These are my last comments on this subject. States not blessed like Florida to have a good EMS system, they don't know what they're missing.

Where I live it is not uncommon for a 911 ambulance call to take 30-45 minutes to respond...although 15-20 minutes is more common...something happens to me or min e and I load them up and make the 12 mile drive to the hospital before the ambulance has even been able to muster a crew to respond. Don't be critical of the mother...she just may have saved the kids life.

[ET(end tyranny)]

The mother would still have to explain what occured. And the ambulance would still have to drive there. The mother was able to leave immediately.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

When you call 911 for paramedic you get fire engine, paramedics and police en force pronto. When my step father died in ver early am I couldn't believe the crowd that assembled immediately, sirens, lights and whistles at full blast.