Outrage Becoming The Norm When It Comes To New York City’s New 911 System

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CBS New York:

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There is frightening new information about delays in dispatching ambulances. Emergency Services call logs reveal apparent glitches in New York City’s new emergency response system — and they’re problems that union officials claim could compromise public safety and cause system failure.

As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reported Tuesday, the emergency response system might be sending some calls for help to a black hole that causes serious delays in dispatching ambulances.

“After you spend $88 million of taxpayer money on a project like this and it doesn’t work and you use the citizens of New York as guinea pigs, I don’t know what to say,” said Israel Miranda, president of the EMS union.

Documents obtained by CBS 2 show delays in calls coming to EMS ranging from minutes to hours. One delay was two and a half hours and another was five hours.

The five-hour delay requested an ambulance for an Astoria man suffering from drug or alcohol abuse.

“He was probably sober by then,” Miranda said.

There was also a delay of 2 hours and 28 minutes for a car accident on 89th Street and 103rd Avenue, and a delay of 1 hour and 4 minutes for a car accident on 94th Street and Astoria Boulevard.

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But if somebody drinks a Big Gulp, I'll bet EMS would respond in five minutes with the cops in tow...