Outside the hospital and wait. We had an ambulance that responded and was at scene within three minutes for a fall victim. An elderly fall victim. They transported the patient and arrived at the hospital rather quickly, and then sat at the hospital with the patient for over an hour, burchard says. The countys standard for offboarding is 20 minutes. John muir health acknowledges theyre experiencing unprecedented patient volume and offloading challenges. But in a statement, they said John Muir Health must be able to continue to use a clinically driven triage process to treat those with the most urgent needs first, rather than being pressured to meet an off load standard. But as ambulances wait to offload, they cant respond to other calls for several hours on thursday and friday, the system reached level zero zero available ambulances. Its a systems issue were having, people over utilizing the ambulance services, contra costa supervisor Diane Burgess says. Too many people are calling 911
Morning team. Good morning. Thank you for joining us on this friday morning. Im james fletcher. It is friday. The 13th, by the way, and we were off to a cool almost spooky start this morning. We do have that eclipse. Thats happening tomorrow morning, john. I know that spooky enough right there and the chill down your spine this morning with some of those 40s may made for that. Check it but were warming up now and are some good sunshine that weve got out there. And behind me, the bay bridge looking good under that sign. But even better this year, the golden gate, which is still nice and bright to you might be thinking, oh, weve got another sunny day ahead of us. Well, its going to be a little cloudier for this one. We have the storm system really just passing to our north. Its kind of get nudged upward. So theres going to be rainfall for the very Northern Tier of the state. Couple sprinkles north of the golden gate. The rest of u. S. Peninsula, east bay and south bay, not looking at rea