As you have heard by now a coach was killed last night at the Dickey Stevens Baseball field. Initial reports from Fox news was that it took MEMS over 10 minutes to respond. The truth is much different, in fact we have spent much of the day debunking rumors.The truth is that when the first base coach was initially hit the team trainers, and eventually three MEMS Paramedics as well as least two MDs and several nurses came to the field to help with the coach, however no one had notified MEMS dispatch that an ambulance was needed. Finally sometime into the call a PCSO Deputy who was on scene called the county dispatch and asked that a MEMS unit be dispatched because a player had been hit. He asked that we meet in the parking lot where we would be directed to the patient. The MEMS unit was in house at station 8 and responded to the call. Total time from call to patient was two minutes and fifty three seconds.
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