In Long Beach, sometimes there just aren’t enough ambulances to go around.
By mid-morning Wednesday, paramedics Dave Meistrell and Danny Sanchez had answered two calls: an 87-year-old Los Altos man who fell and then a cyclist struck by a car near Carson Park. With Meistrell behind the ambulance’s wheel, Sanchez kept conversation with the cyclist in the back.
Minutes after dropping him off and leaving the hospital, the wary crew mentioned lunch, turkey burgers and chips, but then another call came in from dispatch. Meistrell flipped the siren switch and ran a red light…