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>>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.

Next to last comment: Does Maryland have medi-vac helicopters? When it's a life or death matter, that's what I want showing up. Forget the ambulance.

I blame the shooter(s); the terrorists.

Maryland needs to adopt LA standards, news crews helping the cops, medi-vac of wounded people. HELICOPTERS NEED TO BE UTILIZED IMO. They can arrive on scene quickly. Fregards, FV

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.

According to my map, the nearest fire department/EMS is 2.75 miles from the school. Another is 5 miles and another about 9 miles. My guess is, with a cell phone call to 911, EMS would have been there in 5 minutes.

I don't know what the protocol is, but the 911 call might just have triggered a helicopter response.

The Children's Hospital, to where the boy was eventually taken, is about 14.5 miles from the school.