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WASHINGTON — D.C. Fire and EMS is defending a decision to send a contaminated ambulance to care for a 12-year-old boy.
An EMT was sent out on a call last week after a patient vomited on him and he was unable to change his clothes. Fire officials said they got 50 calls for service within a relatively short period of time. The department said the officer in charge made the right call, but the union disagrees.
Last Tuesday morning, the crew of Ambulance 26 got a call to assist an elderly man at a residence on Bladensburg Road in Northeast D.C. According to two sources with direct knowledge of the call, the crew had put the patient into the back of the rig when the man suddenly became sick and began throwing up.
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