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Death of newborn baby among several blizzard tragedies as city is accused of ‘dropping the ball’ - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localnyc/20101229/ts_yblog_localnyc/death-of-newborn-baby-among-several-blizzard-tragedies-as-city-is-accused-of-dropping-the-ball - broken link)
After 9 nine hours of waiting.
Among the calls was a Brooklyn woman who called 911 several times on Monday to report she was in labor. She delivered a baby that was unconscious and later pronounced dead.
Initially, dispatchers assigned the call a low priority because the expectant mother hadn't reported that either she or the baby were in distress, and her delivery was not believed to be imminent. Dispatchers called back several times to check in on the woman, and when a call came in that the newborn was unconscious, the priority was upgraded and EMS workers responded 12 minutes later. The infant was pronounced dead at a hospital. The medical examiner will determine a cause of death.
Emergency response criticized after NY snowstorm (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/weather-news/emergency-response-criticized-after-ny-snowstorm-1152105.html - broken link)
Among the calls was a Brooklyn woman who called 911 several times on Monday to report she was in labor. She delivered a baby that was unconscious and later pronounced dead.
Initially, dispatchers assigned the call a low priority because the expectant mother hadn't reported that either she or the baby were in distress, and her delivery was not believed to be imminent. Dispatchers called back several times to check in on the woman, and when a call came in that the newborn was unconscious, the priority was upgraded and EMS workers responded 12 minutes later. The infant was pronounced dead at a hospital. The medical examiner will determine a cause of death.
Emergency response criticized after NY snowstorm (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/weather-news/emergency-response-criticized-after-ny-snowstorm-1152105.html - broken link)
YOU said the baby was stillborn, which obviously it was not.
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That child was stillborn....
See, stillborn is when they come out dead.
This baby was conscious and alive for a full nine hours BEFORE the EMTs arrived and found the baby unconscious and nonresponsive, which STILL means the baby was alive.
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.
The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesday night at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 call from the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights.
The EMT found the baby unconscious, but still alive. Doesn't say anywhere the baby was stillborn, which is what you claimed.
He said the reaction to the snow as it accumulated was “a lot worse” than after other recent snowstorms and was not as efficient as “the city has a right to expect.”
"But he said there was no way of knowing if anybody who died during the storm would have survived if ambulances had not had so much trouble getting through the clogged streets"
No way of knowing eh? Coming from a medical examiner that's good enough for me or any other
rational thinking person I would think.
YOU said the baby was stillborn, which obviously it was not.
See, stillborn is when they come out dead.
This baby was conscious and alive for a full nine hours BEFORE the EMTs arrived and found the baby unconscious and nonresponsive, which STILL means the baby was alive.
Death of newborn baby among several blizzard tragedies as city is accused of ‘dropping the ball’ - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localnyc/20101229/ts_yblog_localnyc/death-of-newborn-baby-among-several-blizzard-tragedies-as-city-is-accused-of-dropping-the-ball - broken link)
The EMT found the baby unconscious, but still alive. Doesn't say anywhere the baby was stillborn, which is what you claimed.
What part of "She delivered a baby that was unconscious" don't you understand?
Regardless of a slowdown or not, people expect instant gratification these days and are not happy with anything less than that.
I don't know about "instant" gratification. Some of the streets were not touched as of Wed & Thurs and I even think there are some today that are just getting plowed.
I don't know about "instant" gratification. Some of the streets were not touched as of Wed & Thurs and I even think there are some today that are just getting plowed.
Sounds just like Denver after a storm of that magnitude.
What part of "She delivered a baby that was unconscious" don't you understand?
It doesn't say that. Tell me where it says that. Unconscious is not stillborn and nowhere does it say her baby was unconscious for the full 10 HOURS after the first 911 call was made. No where does it say she sat with a stillborn (Dead) baby for 10 hours, which is what YOU claimed. Stillborn=dead.
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By the time a horde of firefighters and cops finally trooped to her aid through snow-covered blocks, the baby was unconscious and unresponsive, sources said.
It doesn't say that. Tell me where it says that. Unconscious is not stillborn and nowhere does it say her baby was unconscious for the full 10 HOURS after the first 911 call was made. No where does it say she sat with a stillborn (Dead) baby for 10 hours, which is what YOU claimed. You do know the definition of stillborn, don't you?
You obviously didn't read this post quoted from the AP affiliate....I'd edit my original post to remove the word "stillborn" but it's too late, unconscious will suffice....
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