By Jeff McDonald
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — Three times in recent weeks, San Diego firefighter-paramedics loaded sick and dying patients onto fire engines to rush them to the nearest hospital.
“They could no longer wait for an ambulance,” San Diego firefighters’ union president Alan Arrollado said of his members. “They needed to save the patient’s life.”
It is not clear how long fire crews had to wait in the three cases, two in Scripps Ranch and one in San Ysidro. Timekeeping records could not be obtained due to a federal law that protects patient privacy.
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