Our EPA at work
This organization needs to be defunded now -- from the
Washington D.C. FOX News affiliate:
DC ambulance breaks down while transporting shooting victim to hospital
The D.C. fire department is trying to determine why one of its newer diesel ambulances broke down as crews were transporting a patient in cardiac arrest.
It happened on I-295 Wednesday afternoon as Ambulance 19 was taking a shooting victim to the hospital. Then it took several minutes for a second ambulance to arrive.
The driver of Ambulance 19 is telling investigators the indicator lights on the emission control system suddenly and unexpectedly jumped from a warning to shut down in a matter of seconds, and as the engine died, she was able to pull the rig to the side of the road.
The question now is why? And can these newer rigs be trusted to be there in an emergency?
When the D.C. fire department began buying these diesel engine ambulances a few years ago, officials knew they would have to manage them with a new emission control system that would automatically shut the engine down if it wasn't allowed to what's called "regenerate.�
It was a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency.
So your engine might be spewing a little bit of pollution -- shut it down. Which moron at the EPA issued that -- for a critical care vehicle.
And oh yeah -- the patient died:
When Ambulance 19 broke down, it was transporting 34-year-old Nathaniel McRae, who had just been in a shootout with D.C. police.
A medic continued to administer CPR while the crew waited for a second ambulance but McRae was pronounced dead at Howard University Hospital.
The EPA was founded for good reasons -- rivers were catching fire and the smog in Los Angeles was legendary. Guess what? These have been fixed and the air now is the cleanest it has been since most people no longer use coal or wood for heating their homes.
What did the EPA do -- did it dissolve itself because its work was done? No - it grew into a Federal Leviathan and began grabbing as much power as it could.
It needs to have its budget cut by 90% and we need to keep records of the soon-to-be ex-employees and make sure that they never ever work in any government position again. They have shown themselves to be untrustworthy.
Posted by DaveH at May 31, 2013 12:05 PM