Letter: Paramedics must wait for call

Monday, Nov. 9, 1998 | 9:17 a.m.

The friend, Ed Koscal, a generous, likeable driver with a comedic soul which always twisted one's perception of reality ... was a career cabbie from Chicago who enjoyed his job.

With a fire station only 100 feet away from the corner of Valley View Boulevard and Bell Drive, Ed lay bleeding for ten minutes after we called 911. Another driver advised me that when he had tried to get help for a past accident at this intersection ... the fire station personnel had advised him ... that they must be dispatched before they can help.

Maybe we wouldn't have so many emergency vehicles racing all over the valley at dangerous speeds ... if they were first dispatched to their own back yards!

Jack Cook

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