Florida Sheriff's Office firefighters took 13 minutes to arrive at fatal fire

  • Source: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale
  • Published: 11/17/2016 12:00 AM

When a fire in a nearby mobile home awakened them, several residents of the Broadview Park neighborhood off Peters Road anxiously called 911, urging dispatchers to get help there quick. They knew that 12-year-old Ana Hernandez Marrero and her 51-year-old father, Armando Hernandez Valdez, were inside the small trailer as the flames grew. "There’s people in there," one caller warned. "They are not coming out. Tell them to hurry!" The main problem: That longtime neighborhood fire station had been vacated by the Broward Sheriff's Office more than three years ago.



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