A bitter memory is triggered by the siren of the passing ambulance from Phoenix Fire Station 50. On the morning Francesca died, that ambulance never came for her.
Phoenix will pay more than a million dollars to a widower who partly blames firefighters for his wife’s death. On New Year’s Eve 2021, Francesca Sandberg had been sick with COVID-19 when her husband called 911. Bruce Sandberg told the dispatcher his wife was having heart and breathing problems and wanted an ambulance. Instead, a fire engine arrived.