The family of a woman who died after going without oxygen for 17 minutes filed a lawsuit against a call center and first responders.
Laurelyn Wagner-Pitts, 60, went into cardiac arrest July 30; she died in August after her family decided to take her off a ventilator. Her husband, Randy Pitts, called 911 after Wagner-Pitts began to make “funny noises and had a look on her face,” reported the Joliet Patch. The suit states that the address placed into the computer-aided dispatch system was incorrect, even though Pitts had told the dispatcher where he lived. Pitts stayed on the line with the dispatcher while he waited for EMS to arrive, but said his wife was gasping for air, still awake and unresponsive.