that was sent from the head of the emergency medical response to the mayor of fort lee about lengthened response times and people who had some serious medical consequences at the time. i m not asking for your sources, but how did you get that story? how have you been able to get documents throughout this story that haven t been otherwise publicly available? we ve been relentless in requesting public documents. and i think the story you re referring to came from public records out of fort lee, previously we had reported that the mayor complained during this week of traffic jams, directly to christie s appointee at the port authority that the traffic was obstructing emergency vehicles, tonight we re hearing of specific cases, a 91-year-old woman who had a medical emergency and ultimately died. what these stories show and they re based on public records out of fort lee is that there were some human stakes here with the traffic jam, and as we probably heard several times, that the story
publicly available? we ve been relentless in requesting public documents. and i think the story you re referring to came from public records out of fort lee, previously we had reported that the mayor complained during this week of traffic jams, directly to christie s appointee at the port authority that the traffic was obstructing emergency vehicles, tonight we re hearing of specific cases, a 91-year-old woman who had a medical emergency and ultimately died. what these stories show and they re based on public records out of fort lee is that there were some human stakes here with the traffic jam, and as we probably heard several times, that the story mushroomed from one about traffic cones to something that had implications far greater, both in political terms and the stakes for our readership, fort lee commuters and other people who used the bridge every day to get to work. your paper today, you first posted 22 pages out of thousands
medical consequences at the time. i m not asking for your sources, but how did you get that story? how have you been able to get documents throughout this story that haven t been otherwise publicly available? we ve been relentless in requesting public documents. and i think the story you re referring to came from public records out of fort lee, previously we had reported that the mayor complained during this week of traffic jams, directly to christie s appointee at the port authority that the traffic was obstruct iing emergency vehicles, tonight we re hearing of specific cases, a 91-year-old woman who had a medical emergency and ultimately died. what these stories show and they re based on public records out of fort lee is that there were some human stakes here with the traffic jam, and as we probably heard several times,
when the governor was mocking you for even asking questions about it? as you know, the official line in the beginning was that this was a traffic study, but the more we asked questions the more things didn t measure up if it was something so innocuous. for months the port authority refused to release details on the traffic study or explain how it came about. the initial clue is that there was no notice to local officials, including police, emergency vehicles and that was a deviation from what you would see in a standard traffic study that affects the world s busiest bridge. your paper posted a story tonight detailing effects of the traffic jam on emergency responders based on a letter that was sent from the head of the emergency medical response to the mayor of fort lee about lengthened response times and people who had some serious
disaster that was ordered by governor christie s office, the first day was monday september 9th. on tuesday september 10th, the emergency medical services coordinator for fort lee wrote to the mayor to explain what this traffic disaster meant for first responders in fort lee, quoting from the report tonight, on december 9th, the first day of the traffic paralysis, ems crews took 7 to 9 minutes to arrive at the scene of an accident where four people were injured. when the response time should have been less than four minutes. it also took responders 7 minutes to reach an unconscious 91-year-old woman who died of cardiac arrest. he did not say her duff was caused by delays. paramedics were delayed in responding to the woman s case due to the heavy traffic in fort lee. the paramedics had to meet the ambulance on route to the hospital instead of on the scene