KATU.com
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A 9-1-1 dispatch tape appears to confirm that it took an ambulance under eight minutes to reach a young girl who had stopped breathing.
KATU aired a story on Monday where the Wormer family said an ambulance was delayed for crucial minutes because of construction around their house. They called an ambulance when their 13-month-old daughter Delylah stopped breathing last week because of a disease that affected her lungs and muscles.
On Tuesday, the family decided to pull Delylah off life support. The family reached out to KATU because they thought the ambulance took 15 minutes to arrive after being delayed by construction of a new sound barrier near their house. That is much longer than the average response time.
Full story: 9-1-1 tape shows ambulance reached sick Vancouver girl in avg. time