REMARKS
Family members share additional thoughts on their loss and ambulance response times
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Family members of the deceased provide additional context about their family history and express concerns about the ambulance response system. They emphasize the need for changes in how emergency calls are prioritized and responded to.
- Highlight the long-standing marriage and family roots in the community
- Criticize the current system of prioritizing emergency calls
- Argue against using their case to promote congestion pricing, noting that traffic was not a factor in their situation
UNKNOWN
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We were married in 52 years.
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We met we were sixteen old schools here to visit twice a week and live at a certain time.
Santa Morales
2:32:57
My parents came from Puerto Rico, came here, and made a night for themselves.
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And I'm proud of them, and I'm proud of my daughter, my son of my grandchildren, and great grands I have.
Maisha Morales
2:33:11
I I wanted to just add something as I was hearing, then testify and the different levels of responses depending on how's the severity.
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Right?
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Patients or or their part whoever's calling on behalf of the patient, Sometimes you're distressed.
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Right?
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You're calling, you're like, you don't even know what to say.
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I don't even know what I I mean, I know what I told them, but I was half asleep.
2:33:41
It was too something in the morning when my mother called me.
2:33:43
Right?
2:33:44
I was just like my father's on the floor.
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I don't know there's blood.
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They're asking me all these questions.
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I mean, it it it disturbs me because from what I've been told by other people that have EMS technicians is that there's different levels.
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And they're like, yeah, call like yours.
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You're all the way at the end.
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Who the system needs to change.
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We can't play God.
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Right?
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Because they probably thought that this is a man with diarrhea and ignored the part that I said there was blood and he's on the floor.
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Right?
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And put him for last.
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When clearly he had a direct impact in his death.
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And so I think that how they they need to approach every every call as of his life and death because They can't play God.
2:34:30
None of us can to decide which is a priority and which is not.
2:34:35
So I just wanted to add that, and I wanted to highlight because I know there's some state senators as well who are talking about these things.
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And they're connecting it to congestion pricing.
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Right?
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And I'm not saying that the traffic doesn't have impact on ambulance response files, but I wanna make it clear.
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I called at 246-245.
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I have a screenshot of it.
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AM.
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They showed up almost an hour later.
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I ran.
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My mother told me, they're still not here.
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I ran over because I was gonna meet her at the hospital, not to delay any time for her.
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And I ran over.
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There were no cars in the street at that time.
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You you know what I mean?
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So I also don't want this to turn into some little ploy where folks we need to do something about our environment and congestion.
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Yes.
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But to use instances like ours just to push their congestion pricing agenda, In my father's case, there were no cars in the street at that time.
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So I just wanna highlight that.
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And did
Gale Brewer
2:35:37
did you ever get a response from anybody as to what happened?
