Poll: Ambulance standby at high school football games

More than a million kids and teens play football in the U.S. Significant football-related injuries, such as paralysis or heat stroke, are almost always reported by local news.
Player deaths, especially during or just after games, are increasingly reported in the national news. The on-scene availability of an ambulance or wait for an ambulance to respond to an injured player is often part of the reporting.

The Omaha (Neb.) Fire department is stopping free ambulance standby at football games. And after a Texas teen died the lengthy EMS response was mentioned in many of the news reports.

EMS at football games

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