Hospital Defends 911 Call

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Clinic is defending the hospital's 911 call that kept a city fire truck from responding to a deadly house fire.

Spokeswoman Eileen Sheil says the Clinic called emergency services to help move an obese patient on Tuesday because the person was in a medically critical situation. Sheil says the city sent an ambulance and it was the ambulance crew that requested the fire truck.

Two paramedics and a truck with four firefighters on board were dispatched to the Clinic.

The fire truck otherwise would have been the first responder to a house fire a few minutes later where a 70-year-old woman died. Three other fire trucks arrived at the blaze within a few minutes.

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