Thomas Ruskin on Fox News Channel - Unanswered 911 calls - 12 - 28 - 10

new york city's emergency services then critically falling down the fire department saying that christmas blizzard backed up more than a thousand nine one one calls three hour delays for some critical cases twelve hours for all others of what is this a lot of system is a broken Tom Ruskin former NYPD detective investigator and president of cnp group security judges here in the there's room for the safe food scene i mean this was thirteen hundred nine one one calls back up for hours and hours and how could this happen it happens because people or a body inventory one one system down with nonessential calls may be heat hot water people have to remember the nine one one system was built for emergencies that's white prior administrations in the bloomberg administration have the three one one system to have those schools go two three one one allow the calls were not essentially a say there were bogging down the system even when the calls got through for example there was an asthmatic patient with pneumonia laurin which is fatal yate dot ten hours to get into a hospital and other women were actually delivering babies in their own home and you know five or six hours later transported area hospitals was the basic problem here week we just couldn't clear the streets that's part of the problem we've learned over the years people expect a lot from governmental ministrations because they've gotten better over the years you look back in nineteen sixty-nine during john lindsay stein you had perot's snowdeal for days and days and days you would people trapped in the air force we don't hear that we hear people who can't get out of airports but not that they're trapped in the air force police respond to every single aidid case in the city of new york on a daily basis police weren't bogged down police were responding to some of these quarrels and rendering first-aid a police officer can put someone in the back of a radio call him taken the problem is that the pedestrian tanned civilians do not know what to do with a snow storm they leave their cause the centre streets therefore blocking the streets up and then you have a endurance is responding as quickly as they can you know as safely as they can to try and get all the schools indoor parking on where merchants he access for a and there was no emergency and das emergency vehicles couldn't get through you know in places like minnesota they're still custom the heavy snowfall off or something i don't have these problems who i think one of those solutions might be an they do employ these independent contractors that actually get out there and start clearing up while the storm is underway and the city does hire people like that and has hired them for years and years and years you have street in staten island let's talk about which is on one of them worst hit borrows in the city that are fifteen feet wide the blades on a normal sentation truck are much wider than that they have to hire independent contractors to come in and clear the streets provided that stuff to the civilians and the people who live on a street just only the cause of the century make it impossible to make it past what else can we do well really listen to the mail listen to the government if they will study this bill will determine a better way to possibly respond to future storms as they did since nineteen sixty-nine and people should call nine one one only forward which is three one one is for all the you know i didn't happen it caught a lot of people by surprise it shouldn't have because we predicted the storm well in advance but it was the day after christmas and people just kind of work pain attention you know they were in their own little happy holiday world and made just didn't listen and pay attention if they had maybe would have been so that mean the people getting trapped on a subway train says alex that's the thing that linden ta in the city have to look at in how to approve that there's no reason that people should be trapped for six hours or so they get a better ripe summer asking greitz is overseeing the are