With the address of
your emergency Atlanta Airport
Airport Airport now walking into
the terminal, there was a family
maybe 50 yards in front of us.
Also walking in. I heard something
sound like somebody dropped luggage.
When we watch this woman fall.
So I took off running. There
is a woman who has fallen and is her
north Daily Level 1 airport parking deck.
She was non responsive and wasn't
breathing and so I called 911
while my brother went to go find
an AED inside the airport. One
was running, one was calling and I
was doing compressions. They were
doing chest compressions right now
midway through the call I heard
my dad say she's not breathing.
I can't find a pole.
Is not she is not OK.
I have one we need help as
quickly as possible, right?
It's kind of felt like you're on your
own until someone just happens to show
up. Engine 32 made it for responding
to the North Laurel level outside
of Dorel in
one they're doing CPR on
the patient. Did help arrive immediately.
No the heroic bystanders,
including this Gwinnett
High school CPR instructor.
Don't know if the woman lived or
died because of health privacy laws,
but we've discovered that
Atlanta Airports Engine 32 took.
7 minutes and 25 seconds to get to the
scene after Nathan's call for help,
the airport ambulance took
nearly 14 minutes. Did you
have any idea that
there was a Firehouse just 500 yards
from you? Not even remotely 500 yards?
I mean, you can literally trot across
the parking lot if you had to. In that
situation, Fire Station 32 would
have been the closest rescue
unit that morning last December.
So why didn't engine 32 and other
rescue units get there sooner?
Because the Firehouse was gone,
the airport Bulldoze Station 32A
year ago to add passenger gates.
The airport will extend
concourse T with five gates.
These new gates will help us accommodate
more passengers and even more airlines.
There were five rescue stations
ringing Atlanta's airport,
the closest to the domestic terminal fire
Station 32 with an advanced life support,
fire engine and an ambulance,
it has a drive time of less than one minute.
To the middle of the terminal gates,
but now fire Station 32 is gone.
The next closest fire station is
on the other end of the airfield,
Fire Station 24.
It has a drive time to the middle of
the T gates of more than five minutes.
That adds 4 minutes to
the total response time.
The next closest station is on the South
end of the airfield, Fire Station 40.
It has a drive time to the middle of
the T gates of more than 7 minutes that.
Adds 6 minutes to the total response
time to the domestic terminal from
the now closed Fire station 32.
Atlanta
Aviation and Fire departments both
refused to grant us another interview.
Instead, the city said the loss
of the Firehouse is temporary,
and in the meantime,
their staging personnel and equipment
inside the concourse and along the
terminal roadway and their confident
the airport will not experience
any degradation in services.
Just hours after the airport
released that statement.
For rent a 76 year old passenger fell in
line for the main security checkpoint.
Yeah, they're notoriously slow.
I don't know if she fell over so much
baggage or what looks like her left
hip is dislocated 39 minutes and we're
still standing by for the ambulance
with the structures anywhere close where
they coming from the injured passenger
was forced to sit on the floor in the
middle of the main terminal for a full
hour with a dislocated hip because
there was no ambulance available.
Still not enough to cover 65,000 employees,
250,000 passengers coming through.
Paperwork, the documented
drive time for Medic one from
the now closed station 32
would have been 57 seconds.
I don't know what their ETA
is, but we need to get this lady of Office
for instead it took more than an
hour and a half and three tries.
Ultimately getting an
ambulance from another city.
We analyzed data from thousands of
medical calls at the airport before
and after the closure of Station 32.
The displaced EMS units
are now taking 65% longer.
That's an extra 3 minutes and 40 seconds
per medical run when every second counts.
Airport communications change in 32
minutes for response to the South
Economy Parking Fire Station 32 would
have been the closest to Thomas Lawson.
As he lay dying in the South
economy Lot last November,
engine 32 was sent from farther
away and started CPR.
22 minutes after his wife,
Ruth called 911,
they were coming to the airport from
the airport and how come they don't
know how to get around the airport?
The reveal obtained this internal
working group report from 2019 warning
in advance that the loss of Station 32
would result in much longer response
times and urging the airport to
build its replacement next to and
along with the five new passengers.
Gates the airport shelved those designs
even though they were 100% complete,
priced, permitted,
and ready to be constructed.
The working group considered
three alternatives,
including not rebuilding
the fire station at all,
but none of the options included
holding off on the demolition of
the old fire station until a new
one could be built elsewhere.
The
old fire station was demolished and we will
be constructing this beautiful new one to
support airport operations.
Construction on the
replacement for Station 32.
Is slated to begin soon in a different
location near the South economy lot,
but it won't be done until the end of 2022,
leaving Atlanta's airport without
a rescue station near the busy
domestic terminal for 2 1/2 years.
So why doesn't the airport
prioritize ambulances,
even making them park behind fire trucks?
Because Hartsfield-jackson operating
certificate depends on how quickly
fire trucks can get to the runways,
not ambulances. The
FAA is. Regulations require
all kinds of fire trucks,
all kinds of firefighting foam
within a distance of the runway,
but there's no requirement for
ambulances close to the terminal.
Does that make any sense? It doesn't
to me that makes absolutely zero sense.
Seems like just such a huge oversight.