No one wants to call 911 or take an ambulance ride, but sometimes, it’s necessary in order to save their lives. Paramedics take an oath to unselfishly care for the sick and injured, and most take their jobs very seriously.
A paramedic in Ohio allegedly abandoned an ambulance traveling from Toledo to Cleveland while transporting Lema Tackett-Kuscmaul. From the back of the ambulance, Tackett-Kuscmaul called 911 to report the missing driver and begged for help.
Tackett-Kuscmaul told 911 the driver took off.
Fox 8 reported Tackett-Kuscmaul frantically called for help after the Lynx EMS driver allegedly left her and an EMT stranded on the city’s West side. Tackett-Kuscmaul told the news station she was traveling by private ambulance to the Cleveland Clinic for treatment of a spinal injury.
“Please get someone out to help me. I’m begging you. She said she’s done driving. She said she’s taking an Uber. She’s leaving us,” Tackett-Kuscmaul said in the 911 call reviewed by Fox 8.
The incident terrified Tackett-Kuscmaul.
Thankfully, the second paramedic stayed with Tackett-Kuscmaul until the Cleveland EMS arrived
“I was screaming. I was definitely screaming at the top of my lungs,” she explained. “The guy in the back with me was wondering where she is. They were trying to get me to take, I wanted the aspirin to keep me from having a heart attack, and it’s like total chaos.”…