Man dies in Pittsburg PA, after calling 911 10 times

911 calls mean someone in big trouble and cant walk where they wanted why didnt they walk or go in on snowmobiles I hope they have to pay for every thing thats just not right dont care if it did snow hmmmmm they should still have got to this person

a lack of communication kills a man. I am not surprised!

very sad... hopefully they can learn from this and figure out how to react logically next time.

hopefully they start with firing those operators. having to call 10 times then dying is just ridiculous. that's almost as bad as the elderly lady being attacked by dogs they asked "where are your parents" while she was being mauled.

This sort of thing should never happen. The first time I ever called 911 the young man who answered tried to argue with me. I gave my location in Arizona and he said NO YOU ARE IN CALIFORNIA. He would not listen. I had to just hang up and call the regular police instead. They came really fast,however, with a firetruck and two ambulances. Enough big burly men to make up a whole football team came charging up the stairs and hauled my poor neighbor off to the hospital. I read a story about a cute little girl whose parents had taught her exactly the right way to report an accident. Then one day her mother fell and hurt herself and the little girl called and did exactly as she had been taught, but the operator told her to quit playing on the phone and hung up on her. Everyone should have a backup number to use if 911 fails. It is just common sense, but I have never heard a safety expert advise people to do this. Maybe the government should institute a 912 number that people can call from anywhere in case their local 911 does not work.

This is really sad. I cant believe this kind of stuff happens to people.

I am in disbelief that they would say something like,”He’s going to have to come to us...” I understand that it may not have been possible to drive further than the bridge but as the mayor said why did they not walk to the poor man? It is appalling, it really is. I thought the whole idea of an ambulance service is to save lives...I hope that someone will be held accountable for this disaster that has cost someone his life and I hope his family sues as well. It’s disgusting really...

Something like this is absolutely uncalled for. However, for some reason it doesn't really surprise me. What would surprise me in the long run would be that there would be no one that got in trouble for this event. My daughter has accidentally called 911 before and hung up the phone whereby they called back and left a message on the voicemail to call them back. My niece has also done a hangup 911 call and they dispatched a police officer to the house to make sure everything was okay. I can't believe that someone called 911 10 times and was unable to get help.

From what I've read about this story, I would say that emergency services are partly at fault, but I would also blame the city. I don't think the dispatchers did anything wrong as they dispatched help several times but they rescue trucks were unable to get to the house. The dispatchers did their job though. The rescue crews should have made more of an effort to get to their patient but in a weather emergency situation like this, I don't understand why the city didn't have crews assisting the rescue trucks to get them to where they needed to go. The city has lots of equipment like snow plows, front end loaders and backhoes that could clear streets ahead of the rescue trucks. Why this was not done is anybody's guess. Did fire/rescue ask the city or the police for help? Did anyone call someone in charge to advise them of this potentially life threatening situation? Who made the decision to just give up after finding snow blocked streets? Why didn't they get out of the vehicle and try to reach the patient on foot? There will be an extensive investigation and these questions and a lot more will have to be answered and they will ultimately be answered in court during the lawsuit against the city for negligence.

This isn't the first time something like this has hit the news. Months ago my local news talked about something simular warning people about what could happen if they call 911. Due to money, this effects how police, fire, and medical respond. Something about bugeting and not having enough resources to help everyone, so they have to change who's responsible for responding to those calls, and saddly lives are lost.

I can't believe that they didn't get out of the ambulance and at least try to make it to him to see if he was going to be okay. I hope someone is held accountable for not trying to save his life. Sheesh.