Western Standard - June 10, 2022


AHS launches independent review into fatal dog mauling response


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

196.06047

Word count

428

Sentence count

25


Summary

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A woman was mauled to death by three loose dogs in her backyard. Why did these dogs get loose? What happened to make them loose? And why did it take so long for an ambulance to get to this woman?

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00:00:00.000 why? Why were those three dogs unrestrained? How did they get loose? What background was there
00:00:08.620 with the owner with those dogs? I mean, I've got three dogs at home as well, one we're fostering
00:00:14.840 and a couple we've adopted. And I'm pretty sure if those three goofballs got loose, all they would
00:00:19.480 do is slobber on somebody, maybe dig up their garden and the one dog might do something nasty
00:00:24.080 to somebody's leg, but they wouldn't get in and kill somebody like those three dogs did the other
00:00:30.180 day. It's tragic. They went out of control. So let's investigate, not go knee jerk with this and
00:00:36.280 try to figure out how to stop these sorts of things from happening. That was just horrible. Just a
00:00:40.280 terrible tragedy. The other part, of course, is that incident happened 10 minutes, nine minutes
00:00:46.340 drive in a regular car from the largest hospital in Alberta. And it took half an hour for an ambulance
00:00:51.580 to get to this poor woman as she died in the backyard. And now what I'm really getting worried
00:00:56.980 about is the constantly changing story because Alberta Health Services has gone into defense
00:01:01.500 mode and they're making excuses for this. And they're saying, oh, it was a dispatch problem.
00:01:06.440 And we didn't realize that it was a life-threatening situation. I mean, the neighbor who stood there,
00:01:12.880 I've heard on the interviews and we've listened to him on TV, breaking down that poor man who's
00:01:16.720 known that lady for years, came out and found this incident and phoned 911. And you're trying
00:01:24.460 to tell me that he came across an 86-year-old woman who'd been mauled by three dogs to what
00:01:29.620 turned out to be death and phoned 911 and said, I think we just need police. We don't need an
00:01:33.480 ambulance. I'm finding this very hard to believe. You know, if this was the United States, one of the
00:01:38.960 things they do down there is release 911 calls. I'd really like to hear what was actually said during
00:01:43.440 that call. I mean, perhaps, I don't know, a person's in panic. They're afraid. Maybe he wasn't
00:01:48.240 clear on what was required, but something went terribly wrong. Half an hour to a woman in that
00:01:54.160 condition for an ambulance to even arrive. She could very possibly be alive today, you know, had we not
00:02:01.580 done something about it. And even if that didn't have anything to do with this particular case,
00:02:05.400 we've got some very serious problems with our emergency services. We've been hitting code reds all the time.