Marion County ambulances came perilously close Saturday night to a recently discussed doomsday scenario when a 2-year-old on S. Kennedy St. was having trouble breathing but one ambulance had no staffing and two others were on calls out of the county. At 8:47 p.m., dispatchers received a call about a 34-year-old man who fell from a bed and pulled a TV stand on top of him at Hilltop Manor in Marion. Marion ambulance was assigned the call three minutes later at 8:51 p.m. Half an hour after that, at 9:25 p.m., it began transporting the patient on a non-emergency basis.
Source: HILLSBORO Star-Journal
