NEW YORK - It took an
ambulance approximately 30 minutes to arrive at a news conference held by City
Council Speaker Christine Quinn after an intern collapsed.
Yvette Dorothy, 17, lost consciousness during the outdoor
event Tuesday afternoon on Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn where the temperature
was in the 90s.
Quinn was addressing the media about the controversial Upper
East Side garbage transfer station when the woman passed out. Quinn was there
to call on opponents of the station to drop their lawsuit against construction
of the site.
Quinn and others called 911 and then tried to help Dorothy.
Quinn then called NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly requesting an ambulance.
Quinn wants to know why it took so long for an ambulance to
arrive. She called the delay inexcusable and says she plans to get to the
bottom of it.
Dorothy was taken to Woodhull Hospital in stable condition.
Recent delays in emergency response times have lead to an
investigation by officials of the city's 911 system.
A four-year-old girl was struck and killed by a teenager
fleeing police on June 4 in Manhattan.
Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano said shortly after the crash
that there had been a delay, but he believed it was human error.
Emergency dispatch and other union officials say it was a
system problem, coming on the heels of several other glitches that lasted up to
an hour at a time.
It's not clear if the delay would have saved the girl's
life.
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