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WASHINGTON D.C. — D.C. is investigating the latest ambulance delay, in which the closest units did not respond to a 911 call.
Nina and Richard Rose described it as the scariest 23 minutes of their lives – the time between their 1-year-old son being knocked unconscious and help arriving.
“He was completely unresponsive at first, and for a minute I thought that he was dead or dying, which is why I lost my mind and started screaming,” Nina Rose said. Dispatch records obtained by News4 show the first call to 911 was made at 10:10 a.m. Sunday after the boy fell down the porch steps and hit his head. Despite the 1 year old being unconscious, the dispatcher listed his condition as conscious and rated the emergency as minor.
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