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Dispatch lag slows LAFD call response

When Javier Ortiz collapsed in his backyard in Echo Park, rescuers were stationed in a firehouse just a half-mile away.

By Ben Welsh, Robert J. Lopez and Kate Linthicum

May 18, 2012

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