By New York Post
A horrifying 911 bungle may have cost a young boy his life yesterday, sources told The Post.
Firefighters and medics rushed to a call of a 6-year-old boy in cardiac arrest at 277 Ave. C at 9:04 a.m. But they were sent to Avenue C in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan.
By the time paramedics reached the boy’s apartment at 9:22 a.m. — 18 minutes after the family’s 911 call — the child was dead, the sources said. The boy’s name was not immediately released.
A woman who opened the door at the family’s apartment last night said, “We can’t talk about it.”
A next-door neighbor, Nori Evoy, said what happened was “awful,” adding, “He was the sweetest little kid.”
A spokesman for the FDNY said the incident is “under review.”
The NYPD said it received a 911 call from a hysterical woman who had given her address, but not the borough. Cops said that the operator tried to establish the cross streets, but the caller was too distraught to respond.
EMTs arrived at the Brooklyn address at 9:10 am — and determined they were in the wrong place.
A dispatcher called the incoming number back and asked the mom where she was. “She said, ‘I’m here, I’m here . . . he’s bleeding from the nose,” and pleaded with them to hurry,” a source said.
The dispatcher finally determined she was in Manhattan.
For emergencies in Crown Heights call Hatzalah 718-387-1750
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If you ever have to make an emergency call, chas vesholom, be it to Hatzala or 911, it is crucial that you try to remain as calm and as coherent as possible. Clarify basic info again! Hashem Yeracheim!
Hatzalah of Crown Heights are truly incredible. We have unfortunately had to call them a number of times over the past decade, and they have always been calm, fast, and efficient. Kol Hakavod, and Thank You!
we know hashem does things that are bad but its all for a reason
hi
jewish or not.. a precious six yr old’s life was tragically taken.
Show a little respect.
Terrible.
A ‘truly caring’ government would have sent help to BOTH locations!
We see how ‘caring’ 911 or the city really is…witness how the taped phone calles were erased during the Crown Heights Riots in ’91!
New York City — a ‘Big Impersonal Bureaucracy.’
SUE BIG TIME! THAT’S ALL THEY UNDERSTAND
thanks #6 for that info…gr8 to know we can count on our amazing hatzalah!
With the hundreds of thousands of 911 calls the Police Departments in the US handle, why was it never anticipated (and prepared for) that someone could do something like that? Why do we always implement new systems AFTER a horrid tragedy instead of considering different situations that could possibly ch”v come up?
was he jewish?
Hatzalah has a system that when you call it gives us your name, address, cross streets and borough. HOWEVER, if your number is BLOCKED or UNLISTED, it will come up blank for our dispatcher and will delay serious minutes for our responders.
was he jewish
so many things happening lately!
4 a country that is the gr8est, we shud hav a GPS of sum sort 2 find out where the emergency is. track the fone. even if its not a cell.
when the phone call comes in, i believe the 911 end is able to see where the call is coming from
i always critic this american system of the streets names (numbers avenues , letters avenues etc… twice in the same city etc….) and now it cost this young boy live!!!!!!!!!!1