By Annais Morales and Dareh Gregorian
The New York Post
NEW YORK — Two of this week’s snow-linked tragedies occurred just a block apart.
The parents of 3-month-old Addison Reynoso say the boy is brain dead because minutes were lost Wednesday afternoon in getting emergency help to their home on 39th Avenue in Corona, Queens.
Two days earlier and one block away, Yvonne Freeman, 75, suffered fatal respiratory distress after waiting three hours for EMTs to fight their way through the snow.
It has been alleged that some sanitation workers engaged in a slowdown or did not plow some neighborhoods at the behest of bosses angry at pending budget cuts.
Doctors say Addison Reynoso contracted the common human respiratory syncytial virus, which only rarely causes severe breathing problems.
“The doctors told me . . . there’s nothing more we can do to save him,” Xoyatla said yesterday as she and her weeping husband, Luis Reynoso, kept a bedside vigil.
Freeman’s daughter, Laura, said she called 911 at about 8 a.m. Monday. It took about 20 minutes to get an operator. And firefighters and EMTs, who ran several blocks after their vehicles got snarled in the snow, took another three hours to get there.
Freeman was pronounced dead at the scene.
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