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Court Holds FDNY Not Liable in EMS Dispatch and Transport Case
The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court has ruled as a matter of law, that FDNY cannot be held liable for their initial decision to dispatch a basic life support ambulance as opposed to paramedics to an incident scene, or the later decision of EMTs to await the arrival of paramedics rather than transport a patient immediately to the hospital.
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