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Updated: Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011, 7:13 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011, 7:13 PM EDT

By CHARLIE LEDUFF
WJBK | myFOXDetroit.com

DETROIT (WJBK) - Remember last week when cops took four shooting victims to the hospital because they couldn't wait for an ambulance and one person died?

City Hall says the ambulances worked like they should.

"What my understanding is, and I haven't listened to the tapes yet, they're being listened to … it looks like the responses were appropriate, were timely and that the EMS, I think, diligently and doing a good job," said Detroit Deputy Mayor Saul Green.

Well, FOX 2's Charlie LeDuff has listened to the tape, and now you can too, Detroit.  It shows that paramedics worked their tails off, and it also shows how everything else is wrong with the city's EMS system.

Click on the video player to watch Charlie's report.

 

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