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Hospital Requested. Why is the Park Ridge Fire Department not always able to take patients to the hospital specified by the citizen?

April 26, 2017able Citizen Department hospital park Patients requested Ridge

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Hospital Requested. Why is the Park Ridge Fire Department not always able to take patients to the hospital specified by the citizen?

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