KTVU
SAN FRANCISCO — The future of Joanne Hayes-White as San Francisco’s fire chief will be debated Thursday at a closed door meeting of the San Francisco Fire Commission — a day after an ambulance dispatched to assist a man in a Sunset District carbon monoxide leak arrived after the required response time to the scene.
The man — 94-year-old Aron Grabois — died at the scene but it was not known if the ambulance’s slow response time played a role in the death. An autopsy was pending.
Deputy Fire Chief Mark Gonzales told KTVU that the incident remains under investigation. According to dispatch records obtained by KTVU, the ambulance call came in at 5:37 a.m. and a private ambulance arrived on the scene 18 minutes later at 5:55 a.m. City policy requires a life-threatening call to be responded to within 10 minutes or less.
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