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I’ve loosely followed stories about this ambulance accident, primarily because someone purporting to be a journalist ought to know that a car might break, or more properly break down, but uses brakes to stop.  However, I’m trying to figure out whether the latest update is once again merely a victim of poor English:

Furthermore, Maggie Whobrey said her mother had a nose bleed and it doesn’t explain why both the EMT and paramedic said they wanted the emergency lights off.

I can tell you exactly why you don’t transport a patient with a nosebleed (yes, it’s supposed to be one word) with emergency lights on:  because you shouldn’t transport any non-life-threatening condition that way!  If the patient is stroking out and the nosebleed is secondary, I could see an emergency response, but that requires a bit of imagining facts that just aren’t in that story.

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