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Firefighter union says NYCs 911 dispatch system doesn’t work

He blasted city officials who blamed a lone EMS worker for a 4-minute delay in getting an ambulance to the scene of a crash that killed a 4-year-old

New York Daily News

NEW YORK — New York City has “flushed hundreds of millions of dollars down the toilet” on a 911 computer dispatch system that doesn’t work, firefighter union head Steve Cassidy charged Wednesday.

Cassidy, speaking to the Daily News during a massive labor rally outside City Hall, said the expensive upgrade of 911 software was another failed Bloomberg initiative.

“They had too many problems not to admit it,” Cassidy said. “The system doesn’t work. A little honesty, a little sunlight would be helpful,” said the union leader, who has challenged the FDNY in the past on the accuracy of its response-time data.

Full story: NYC’s 911 dispatch system ‘just doesn’t work,’ firefighter union leader says