Mistake at Raleigh 911 Center Cost 15 Minutes in Sending Ambulance to Dying Man

  RALEIGH, N.C. — A Wake County EMS ambulance wasn't dispatched for 15 minutes following a 911 call in April as a man lay dying in a car dealership parking lot after suffering a heart attack, according to 911 calls and other emergency dispatch information obtained by WRAL News. James Pasternak called the Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center at 7:57 a.m. on April 5 as he rushed his father-in-law, 63-year-old Steven Tibbetts, a retired Wake County magistrate, to a hospital after Tibbetts became unresponsive. "I’m driving in a car with my father-in-law. He has a pacemaker, and he is not – he just passed out. I’m trying to get him to WakeMed," Pasternak told the 911 dispatcher. Read more at WRAL News.
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