If there is one thing we can all agree on, it’s hot, very hot, and no shade tree can come close to the relief from a well-performing air conditioner.
Another indisputable fact is this: If you get sick, like overwhelmed by heat, and need to be rushed to the hospital, you definitely don’t want the A-C to go on the blink in the back of your ambulance.
But that’s exactly what’s happening to about half the front-line fleet of more than 40 ambulances at the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.
In addition, the department has purchased 21 new ambulances, at a cost of $4.2 million, with the same air conditioning systems as those already failing in the 2016 and 2017 ambulances, NBC 5 has found.