Miano explains Wagner Middle School call and ambulance preemption

Thank you.

So for that incident, that particular incident, that was called.

We did speak to the caller.

We did triage that call.

That call was classified as an injury, which is a segment five category, and that is not considered a life-threatening emergency.

An ambulance was dispatched.

Several ambulances actually were dispatched to respond to that call.

But while en route to that call, they were preempted and redirected to life-threatening emergencies that they were the closest ambulance to while they were responding to that assignment.

But when there's a firehouse next door, shouldn't there have been some?

I mean, I don't really understand where the breakdown in communication went in this situation where you've got three hours that this family is waiting.

So ambulances do not come out of firehouses.

I understand that.

But when you've got a situation where the ambulance are being rerouted, couldn't there have been an on-the-spot calculation to just check on this young boy?

So that the...

Fire engines are known as certified first responders, and there are certain call types that they respond to, and those are life-threatening emergencies like cardiac arrest, difficulty breathing, cardiacs with difficulty breathing.

Breathing.

They are not dispatched to injuries.