Snow makes people crazy.  In a life or death situation, you’d hope the paramedics would be willing to endanger themselves to save others, but I guess that’s not the case, as officials in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, left a man’s calls to 911 go unanswered for over 30 hours.  When Curtis Mitchell started having intense abdominal pain, his girlfriend Sharon Edge called 911.  During the next 30 hours, the couple called 911 ten times, 911 called them four times, and 911 and the paramedics talked over a dozen times.  All the while, the snow storm raged on and paramedics refused to walk 300 feet through the snow to rescue and treat the disabled man’s intense pain, saying he needed to walk to them.

In the words of public safety director Michael Huss, “We failed this person…you get out of that damn truck and you walk to the residence.”

The man died because six people in three difference ambulances refused to walk through the snow to get to him.  This death has already resulted in changes to how the 911 system operates in Pittsburgh, and no doubt more changes are going to come as a result of this. Too little, too late for Curtis Mitchell.

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