Report: Las Vegas Fire Department medics abandoning poor, minority neighborhoods.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The Las Vegas Fire Department is transporting more patients from Summerlin and wealthier neighborhoods on the west side and leaving more inner-city hospital transports to American Medical Response, according to a report by local research firm Applied Analysis.

“I’d suggest the data shows they are cherry-picking those calls,” said Scott White, general manager of the private ambulance company which paid for the study.

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[Anansi1171]

1. All this WP teeth gnashing and nothing for a real case of...

...institutional racism at work!

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. It sounds like the Las Vegas Fire Department needs some oversight.

Or maybe they can all sit around in a circle and check their privilege.

One of those things might work.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Good grief! How awful!