By Adrian Sanchez
Columbus Telegram
Copyright 2008 Columbus Telegram

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Joyce White believes that if an ambulance would have had open access to her brother’s southside home when his heart failed he would be alive today.

James “Big Jim” H. McKee Jr., White’s brother, lived on Sixth Street near 12th Avenue in 1997. Just after midnight on Aug. 11, 1997, he began feeling ill -- the onset of a heart attack.

He called his sister who lived across the street. She called 911, and an ambulance was dispatched.

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