Summary
A fire department policy that kept a nearby emergency medical team from being dispatched to Augusta Commissioner Bobby Hankerson's ailing wife might have been a blessing in disguise, according to Commissioner Tommy Boyles.
Mr. Hankerson's public complaint about the delay and the lack of a fire first responder unit at his home when he thought his wife, Delores, was having a heart attack Sept. 5 exposed a flaw in the city's emergency medical response, Mr. Boyles and other commissioners say.See the full content of this document
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Emergency Response Policy Upsets Leaders
"I hate it because it was a member of the commission, but we don't normally get information like that," Mr. Boyles said. "If it had been poor John Doe out on the street, it would have been held from us. We don...
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