An injured D.C. police officer waited fruitlessly for an ambulance to arrive Tuesday evening, the latest in a series of delayed responses by the troubled fire department. The officer obtained said injuries during an arrest on 4th Street near Rhode Island Avenue in Northeast D.C. But despite the 911 call for immediate assistance, no one ever arrived. According to D.C. Fire and EMS, there were no transport units available at that time, which was about 6:30 p.m. The injured officer waited more than thirty minutes. Eventually, a police cruiser transported the injured officer to Providence Hospital. It is not known what injuries the officer had or if they were complicated by the unnecessary delay. Back in 2013, a city officer had to wait fifteen minutes for an ambulance to arrive from Prince George’s County after he was wounded in a hit-and-run wreck. Similar issues have continued to vex the fire department ever since.
