And quotas. I wonder if this front end loader operator was hired because he/she was the best qualified to operate it, or if he/she was hired to fulfill a quota?
I guess everyone has seen this by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE
Posted on 12/30/2010 1:36:26 AM PST by Huntress
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.
The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesday night at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 call from the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights.
"No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plowed, and no medical aid came for hours," said the student's mother.
By the time a horde of firefighters and cops finally trooped to her aid through snow-covered blocks, the baby was unconscious and unresponsive, sources said.
Details of the tragedy emerged as the abominable snowstorm continued to wreak havoc across a city still digging out from the wintry blast. Some of the other blizzard horrors include:
- In Queens, a woman tried to reach 911 operators for 20 minutes Monday and then waited for three hours for first responders to arrive. By then, her mom had died, state Sen. Jose Peralta's office said.
Laura Freeman, 41, said her mother, Yvonne Freeman, 75, woke her at 8 a.m. because she was having trouble breathing. When the daughter couldn't get through to 911, she enlisted neighbors and relatives, who also began calling.
One of the callers reached an operator at 8:20 a.m., but responders stymied by snow-clogged streets didn't reach the Corona home until 11:05 a.m., said Peralta, who wants the death investigated.
"The EMS workers walked down the block trudging through snow," Freeman said. "They tried. I could tell by the look on their faces. I really would just like [Mayor] Bloomberg to admit that there were casualties."
- A woman in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was forced to spend the night with her dead father after the medical examiner's office took more than 24 hours to claim his body. Ismael Vazquez died at 10:31 a.m. on Monday, and the 82-year-old man's body remained in his bed until 1 p.m. yesterday. His daughter kept vigil in the living room.
"This is New York City, and I'm a New Yorker, and this is not the first storm we've ever had," said Florence Simancas, 51, holding back tears. "Somebody dropped the ball ... big-time."
- A Brooklyn woman was left sobbing at a Bay Ridge bus stop yesterday when the driver said there was no way to get her to a doctor's appointment in Bensonhurst.
"Please help. I have a doctor's appointment that is important and I can't get nowhere," 64-year-old Ludmila Kowalow said. "I don't know what to do," she added, throwing her hands in the air.
A 76-year-old Bay Ridge heart attack victim nearly died when an FDNY ambulance became stuck in a snowbank, but he was rescued by a gang of good Samaritans lugging him through the unplowed streets on a sled fashioned from a gurney.
"My husband could be dead right now," said Lucy Pastore, whose husband, Salvatore, was in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center. "The mayor acts like this is a minor inconvenience. Makes me sick."
Still, nothing approached the tragedy of the newborn on the busiest day for 911 calls since Sept. 11, 2001.
The pregnant woman was walking from her home to the nearby hospital in the still-swirling snow when she ducked into the building lobby, unable to make it any farther.
The young woman had not told her family she was pregnant - she didn't want to disappoint relatives - or that she and her college boyfriend had decided to put the child up for adoption.
An 8:30 a.m. 911 call was made, with the caller saying the birth wasn't imminent, a Fire Department source told the Daily News. The call received a low priority, and the city unsuccessfully tried twice to contact the caller during the next few hours, the source said. A second, more urgent 911 call at 4:30 p.m. reported the woman was bleeding and the baby was crowning - and the call was upgraded to level two, the source said.
An hour later, the NYPD contacted the FDNY/EMS to report the baby had been delivered but was unconscious. Cops cut the umbilical cord and tried to revive the newborn, police source said.
The call was then upgraded to level one - highest priority - and an FDNY crew arrived in 12 minutes, sources said. EMTs were on the scene at 6 p.m.
"The mayor was spouting nonsense to say Crown Heights was plowed. It wasn't," the woman's mother said. "No one could get to her ... any other day she would have gotten to a hospital."
The city medical examiner will do an autopsy today on the baby.
Apparently you haven’t read about the deliberate slow down by the sanitation workers union. This child, and a lot of these people are dead because the union thugs were pissed about budget cuts and they drove past streets that were unpassable with their shovels raised....on purpose.
That is a very sad commentary - it epitomizes what is wrong with our country today.
This is government dependence on a tragic scale. If it’s this bad after a snowstorm, imagine what it will be when the Obamacash is no longer flowing due to city, state, and federal bankruptcies. You do NOT want to be in the cities, people.
Legendary Yankee ingenuity has been subsumed by government dependence, and rendered politically incorrect by union greed.
Was there no way to telephone a doctor in the area who could have trudged thru the snow to help save this baby’s life?
We dare not wait helplessly for the government to take care of us.
IIRC when the sanitation workers threatened Rudy with a strike he told them to go right ahead. That he would privatize the sanitation operation.
End of strike threats.
One of the back stories that I’ve heard repeated by callers to several radio shows recently seems to indicate that New York City brought a lot of this on themselves. In previous years snow plows and loaders from outlying communities were contracted by the city to help remove the snow in NYC. Apparently, last February there was a big dump in NYC and a lot of these snow plows were contracted by NYC to help remove snow. They did and everything was fine until they tried to get paid for their efforts. The city of New York either didn’t pay them or, if they did get paid it was a small percentage of what they were due and even that took 6-8 months. So, this go around when the city put out a call for assistance few responded. Another problem is the new requirements for “diversity training” NYC requires for contractors. No one wants to pay for “diversity training”, much less for a job that doesn’t pay. Funny how that works, isn’t it Mayor Bloomberg?
And quotas. I wonder if this front end loader operator was hired because he/she was the best qualified to operate it, or if he/she was hired to fulfill a quota?
I guess everyone has seen this by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE
“Yeah, but NY city is a low transfat, non smoking, low food salt city per Rabbi Bloomberg et al.”
Plus, the Ground Zero victory mosque is of utmost importance.
I hadn't. I hope the guy who videotaped the damage gives a copy to the owner of the SUV.
I heard the Suburban the loader initially hit was property of the City. He-he-he.....
The people of New York know what to expect out of their city government in the handling of a snow emergency. They are not “stupid” for expecting the city to clear the streets after a storm.
The Unions undermined the clearing of streets. They killed New Yorkers in service to their own greed. It is one thing to get deathly ill during a massive storm when the blocking of transportation can not be helped. It is another to have transportation blocked after the storm for Union greed.
Now that New Yorkers know that city workers are perfectly capable of murdering them to get their benefits, they had best organize other emergency plans for the days after a major snow storm. Also, they had best bust the government worker unions as part of that emergency plan.
This is amazing to me that in a densely populated area like Brooklyn, and with cell phones, there was no way to get her help.
LOL. No Mercy.
I think there may be a back story to this poor pregnant lady. Out-of-wedlock, didn’t tell parents, waited until she was in labor to seek help, etc. I still can feel pity, lol!
How I wish NYers would organize like the Tea Partiers (I am a born, bred and renter in NYC) and destroy that Union. But with Bloomberg already denying the Union’s complicity in this (after all, they support HIM), I very much doubt anything will change.
But before we condemn all NYers, let’s remember their incredible strength and moxie on 9/11.
There is no way in NY aside from walking in the blizzard once the transpirtation system breaks down.
There are no doctors in that area. Only at hospitals and they wont go out. This blizzard was like a cat 1 hurricane, monstrous winds, very hard to walk. No buses.
Didn’t I read this was in Crown Heights?
No doctors, no nurses, no one in the area that could have come to her assistance?
Dear Lord. I wonder if she had had any prenatal care.
I hadn’t seen it. Unreal.
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