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Needs more ambulances and people to run them. This is not going to get better. Its going to get worse. This is an issue that this administration inherited but its still an issue theyre going to have to deal with. Sam one big issue was mutual aid much there was an ambulance a mile away. Fire station in maryland and in fact, they chose a d. C. Ambulance that took 28 minutes. I spoke with an official with the 911 center today and he said basically, d. C. s policy is if they have an ambulance available anywhere in the city, they will not seek mutual aid. As in the case here it was dispatched from over seven miles away. Reporting live from southwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. Leon thank you sam. There are concerns about how crews are dispatched to emergencies. Last week, calls went out for a toddler choking on a grape. That call went to a firehouse a mile away from the scene in northwest. It took seven minutes to respond despite the fact that fire engine 20 was in Service Three block

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