(Disclaimers in part one)
Faith Yokas and Maurice Boscorelli heard the shots
before any other cops in the NYPD did. They
immediately followed the sound, radioing it in as they
drove. What they found themselves confronted with
when they arrived on scene was a chilling sight. They
had arrived just in time to see Kim being escorted
round to the front of the rig at gunpoint.
"Oh my gosh Katy." Faith cried, seeing her cousin
laying bleeding to death in front of them, the person
she had come to help already dead.
"Stay here." Bos ordered opening the door.
"Whatever happens you stay here and wait for back up."
He told her.
"Bos don't you dare. You'll get yourself killed."
She told him, but he didn't listen.
As the gang fussed over their dead friend, gesturing
to Katy the whole time, Bosco crept up behind them.
"Move away from the girl." He shouted calmly.
The group turned around, chilling grins appearing on
their faces as they saw the lone Police Officer.
"Move away." Bosco shouted again.
"She let our boy die." Ray told him angrily.
"I'm sure she tried to save him. Now let her get
back into the ambulance and..."
"No way." Ray replied pointing a gun at Bosco. "She
let him die. Now we're gonna let her. Pay backs’ a
bitch aint it."
"Hey man you wanna shoot me?" Bosco asked.
"Never thought you'd ask. Never did like cops." Ray
told him pulling the trigger, the bullet going into
Boscos side.
Bosco fell to the ground. Turning around he looked
toward his squad car and noticed Faith calling for
back up. He also noticed her attempting to get out of
the car.
"Yokas stay the hell in there. You wait for back up
and keep the doors locked." He shouted pain travelling
through his body with every movement.
Faith looked at her partners face which was pale and
so obviously filled with pain. She couldn't just sit
there and let Katy and him die. She would never
forgive herself.
She took a deep breath and opened the door only to
find a gun pointed at her face.
"Do what he says honey. Don't you try a thing. The
party hasn't even started yet."
Seeing Faith close the door and lock it, Bosco
rolled over onto his good side and looked at where the
bullet had entered his body. He couldn't see an exit
wound. It was still inside him. What he didn't
realise was that by rolling over his radio had been
turned on and anything he said would be transmitted to
his partner and the whole department.
"Katy?" he called gently, wincing in pain as he did.
The young woman stirred and looked around groggily,
her focus then falling on her heavily bleeding leg.
She looked at all the wounded figures around her.
"I tried to help but he needed surgery...they
wouldn't let him go to a hospital. Something to do
with some money..." she told Bosco.
"Hey, I know you would've tried to help him." Bosco
soothed.
"You're bleeding." She then told Bos noticing his
wound.
"You are too." He replied gritting his teeth as pain
flowed through his body.
Katy shuffled over and pulled up Boscos Jacket.
"That's pretty bad." She told him.
"So's your leg." He replied.
"That I can feel." She told him wincing. "Hold your
jacket up." She told him.
Bosco did.
"Never thought you'd ask." He joked.
Katy smiled then ripping the sleeve off her jacket
and bunching it up. She gently put it over Boscos
wound.
"Now take off your belt." She told him.
Bosco did what she said and handed to her.
"This is gonna hurt. I'm so sorry." She apologised
before rolling him over and using the belt to hold the
makeshift bandage on.
Bosco screamed out in considerable pain, his partner
who was in the squad car, crying. He was her friend,
her best friend and there he was dying and there
wasn't a thing she could do to help. He had helped
her through so much and while he had a big mouth and
had the ability to piss her off most of the time they
worked together, she knew that just for her and the
few people he was really close to there was a really
sensitive guy buried underneath the tough exterior.
One who was willing to do anything to make sure the
ones he loved were okay.
"That should stop you losing so much blood." She
told him, noticing he was beginning to get drowsy.
"Hey you stay with me. I know you're tired, I am
too...it's the shock. If we go to sleep, we may not
wake up." She told him sternly, then ripping off her
other sleeve and wrapping it around her leg.
Bosco shifted again uncomfortably and once again
cried out. By now the whole police squad had heard
what had happened and was preparing to act to save
two of their own.
"Didn't expect to see you again so soon." Bosco
commented, his voice weak as he fought to stay awake.
"Same here." Katy replied. "Just luck I guess." She
told him as she began to close her eyes.
Bosco put a hand on her face and gently patted it.
"You gotta stay with me. I'm not dying alone." He
told her obviously scared.
As Faith listened, she realised she had never heard
such desperation in her partners voice. Nor fear. If
she lost him...Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted
by a banging on the car window. Looking out she saw
one of the gang members pointing at Bosco and then
motioning as if he was going to slit his neck. Faith
pulled the lock up on the car door, lifted her gun and
opened it, then pointed it at the guy standing near
her.
"What do we have here? Looking good lady. How
about a piece of this Ice?" the guy said moving closer
to Faith.
Faith walked right up to him and pointed the gun at
his head.
"Move any closer and you'll be joining your partner
over there." He told her coldly. "Hey Ice show this
lady here just what we're meaning."
The guy called Ice walked over to Bosco, grinned at
Faith and then kicked Bosco in the side, the Officer
letting out a cry that brought tears to the eyes of
Kim in the ambulance, Katy who was laying wounded at
his side, and Faith.
"You wanna see him hurt more? Do ya?! You wanna see
lover boy really hurting?" Ray shouted.
"No!" Faith whispered.
"What was that honey?"
"I said no!" she screamed back.
Faith looked over at her partner who was rolling
around in agony. Katy crying at his side. All she
wanted to do was help them, but she couldn't. They
were all helpless there that day, every single one of
them.
Bosco then rolled over so he could see Faith and the
guy that was moving ever closer to her, his finger
stroking her chin as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Get back in the car Faith. Please just get back in
the damn car!" a pained Bosco shouted as Ice took
another kick at him.
"Oh I dunno, Ice we could have a little fun here."
He told him leering at Faith,
"For goodness sake isn't this enough for you?" Bosco
shouted.
Ray pushed Faith back against the car, making her
point her gun down at the ground.
"You get back out of that car again and he dies."
Ray whispered opening the door.
Faith got in and locked it, putting her gun down on
her lap. Over the radio she could hear Bosco
screaming, every breath he took filled with pain. She
wanted to get out. She wanted to run over to him, but
now Ray had sat himself by the window and every time
she looked out she thought for the first time in her
life she was looking into the leering face of evil.
Katy waited until Bosco finished writhing around in
pain before checking his wound again, ripping her
shirt and adding a new layer over the old dressing.
She could see he was in agony, but was trying his best
not to let it show for fear of scaring her. She could
also see his worry for Faith, the care he felt for her
deep inside. Here was a man who didn't want to die,
but who like her may not have a choice and was
resigning himself to that fact.
"So how long you worked with Faith?" Katy asked
trying to break the tension, laying on her side to
face him so she had something to focus on.
"A few years now." Bosco replied breathlessly,
wincing with every breath.
"You guys get on?" Katy asked wincing as pain shot
through her leg.
"Most of the time. Why hasn't she spoken to you
about me?" Bosco asked.
"The stories I've heard." Katy teased. "Seriously
Bos of course she has. Told me you were a pain in the
ass..." she continued.
"Yeah well gotta keep the people happy." Bosco
replied hurt, trying not to close his eyes despite his
tiredness, fearing he would not be able to open them
again.
"What? You think that just because people have a
perception of you, you have to keep that perception
going just to stay constant?" Katy asked.
"Katy if you've spoken to Faith, she's probably told
you I'm an insensitive bastard. It's the truth."
"I don't think so...and either does she. You may
want people to think you are, and yeah I've heard in
some respects you can be, but from the way you're
talking now I can see there's a....oh geez...side to
you that you keep just for Faith, for the people you
care about. You just hide it from everyone else."
"You okay?" Bosco asked the young woman beginning
to shiver.
"I'm dying Bos, course I'm not." She told him
quietly.
Bosco closed his eyes, the pain in his side growing
sharper. He felt more pressure on the wound and
turned to see Katy had now taken her jacket off and
was holding it to his side.
"The blood's seeped through the other dressing. You
need to hold this on."
"I'm too tired." He told her.
"Me too but we gotta keep fighting."
"What's the point?" Bosco told her.
These words immediately broke Faiths heart. Never
had she heard her partner sound as defeated as he did
talking to Katy that day. All she wanted to do was
get out of that car and run over to them, tell them
both to hang on, but she couldn't. She had to wait for
back up. She had to face the possibility her partner
could die right in front of her eyes when there was so
much left unsaid.
"The point is that you make a difference to lives.
You can't give up on life just because it seems to be
giving up on you."
When hearing this Kim felt hot tears burning behind
her eyes. After Bobbys death she had given up on
life. She'd given up on ever being happy again.
Someone who had been a constant in her life, a source
of love and care and concern had been stolen away and
because she felt it would make things too complicated
he had gone without knowing how much he truly did mean
to her. At that moment she knew exactly what Faith
was going through watching her partners life slip away
before her eyes, and in hearing Boscos words and Katys
she was reliving the day where Bobby died. What if
Bobby had never known she loved him? Why had she kept
it locked up through fear? those were questions she
asked herself every day. She’d chased Jimmy all the
time Bobby was her partner, when the man who truly
could have made her happy was right before her eyes.
Now he was gone.
"What have I got to fight for Katy? I'm a loser.
Yeah I'm a cop, yeah I make a difference but lying
here, seeing life flashing before my eyes I've
realised I have nothing to show for my life yet. I've
had so many dead end relationships and I've never
really been in love with anyone...I haven't got a
family....I piss everyone off even my own partner."
"Well then fight for that. Fight for the chance.
You've helped Faith through so much Bosco. She thinks
the world of you. Emily and Charlie love you. Bos you
just being you brightens up her days...big mouth or
not. I mean take the poison Ivy incident..."
"Hey that was not funny. You shoulda seen the mess
that stuff made of my face." Bosco told her smiling
slightly. "That day was kinda sad though. I made her
cry." Bosco told Katy sadly.
"Bos when she feels like she can't fight any more
she has you to turn to. To look to for support and for
a good laugh. Obviously you have a way about you that
makes her do that." Katy told him making him smile. "
Bos you help her without even realising it. Don't you
think that's something to fight for?"
"I guess." He replied sincerely.
"Well then. Besides the guy I spoke to earlier was
not a defeatist. Don't start being one now." She
told him sternly.
Bosco watched as the gang members began to circle
round them. He feared they would beat him again.
Instead they seemed more focussed on taunting his
colleagues, going over to the ambulance and kicking
it, Ray still leering at Faith through the windows of
the squad car. A sight he feared he would never
forget.
"Katy, your leg looks really bad." Bosco told her
noticing her makeshift bandage had slipped off.
"I'm okay. Keep talking." She told him. "Besides
you don't look so good yourself."
"I'm freezing." Bosco told her shivering.
"You're in shock. We both are."
Katy shifted to his side and they huddled up.
"Try anything and your partner will kick your ass."
Katy told him, her teeth chattering.
"I know." He replied closing his eyes again.
"Stay with me Bos." She told him.
He opened his eyes again, crying out in pain as his
whole body started to hurt. Faiths heart broke as she
heard this...as she heard their words, spoken softly
in voices that were filled with pain and fear. She
could hear two of the people she cared about most in
the world slipping away and there she was unable to
help. This experience was something she wouldn't wish
on anyone. Now she knew how Kim had felt those few
months ago when Bobby had been shot. It was however a
learning experience and deep down in her heart Faith
knew that if Bosco survived this her life couldn't be
the same again and she wouldn’t want it to.
"You know a year ago I lost my best friend. He was
called Paul. We were always on the verge of something
happening between us and then it was too late. On our
first date he was killed in a hit and run...he died
instantly. I knew I wanted to be a paramedic before I
lost him, I even started training, but from that
moment on there was nothing I was surer of. I knew I
was meant to be one...to save lives because I couldn't
save his. After he was gone though it was as if a
part of my heart had gone and I just couldn't carry on
anymore. There was so much left unsaid, so much I
could've told him. So much I wanted to tell him, but I
was too afraid. And then when we finally did admit
everything he was taken away from me. Life's too
short to give up on, to have regrets...you have to
follow your heart because otherwise you're never going
to live. About three months after he died I...I drove
my car into a ditch. I was just a wreck...I just
couldn’t be happy anymore. I was in the hospital for
weeks, ended up having counselling because I meant for
it to happen. I wanted to die. But you know what I
learnt?"
"What?" Bosco asked.
"You have to keep the people you love close. You
have to fight for them every moment in the day.
Never, ever give up. It's not worth putting the pain
you've suffered onto another person through not
fighting. "
These words also struck Kim. She had guessed that
Katy had been through a lot but the similarities were
amazing. Here was a young woman who had suffered so
much, and yet while laying out there dying was making
sure Bosco had a chance to live. Listening to these
words Kim realised what a mistake it would have been
if the overdose had worked, how painful it would have
been for Joey and her mother. Losing Bobby was
something Kim doubted she'd ever really get over but
at least she knew that she'd always have something to
fight for. She'd have the memory of Bobby keeping her
going, she'd have her son and most of all the
knowledge that she wasn't alone. She couldn't keep
believing she was the only one who had suffered loss.
Instead she had realised life is too precious and you
have to move on, no matter how much you want to hold
on to the past.
"All right in there baby girl?" One of the guys
shouted through the window grinning at her.
"Just, please...leave us alone." Kim shouted in
tears.
"Don't let them see they're beating you Kim." Doc
told her.
"That's right baby. You just cry. You cry like
sweet thing out there, like your cop. Like the weak
little..."
"You shut the hell up." Doc shouted. "Leave her
alone."
"Why pops? Why should we? You let our guy die, now
you get payback." The hooded man shouted as the
members who were circling the ambulance began to shake
it.
"Just stop!" Kim shouted.
"No way baby. There aint no way." He continued as
the gang began to focus their attention on the
paramedics, an already fragile Kim wondering if there
was any way any of them would come out of this alive.
"I'm sorry you had to go through all that." Bos told
Katy, having before been distracted by what was going
on with the ambulance, though now just trying to keep
he and Katy from drifting away.
"Yeah well...I'm just glad it didn't work. I've got
my work now. I have Faith and Emily and Charlie.
Even if my parents aren't supportive of me doing this
I've always got them. Though I always thought Faith
would've been prouder if I was a cop." Katy commented
putting a hand on her leg to see the blood had seeped
through her dressing and covered her pants.
"I'm sure Faith's glad it didn't work either, and so
am I. If you weren't here to keep me in check, I
think I would've already given up. You're gonna make
a great paramedic Katy. You're right, you are meant
to do this." Bosco told her.
"Well you still got to fight Bos and thank you."
Katy told him.
"I don't want to die Katy. This is just so damn
hard." Bosco told her angrily.
"I know. I don't want to die either. That's why we
have to keep talking. Why we can't sleep no matter
how much we want to." Katy replied, tears running down
her pale face as she saw what the gang was now doing
to the ambulance...the way Ray was leering at Faith.
"I don't want to leave her." Bosco told Katy weakly.
"I know you don't." Katy told him taking his hand
and wincing.
"I'm always such a pain in the ass. What if she
doesn't know that I...? What if she's glad?"
In the squad car Faith put her head in her hands,
her face wet with the many tears that had fallen
already that day.
"Oh Bos..." she whispered sadly, wondering how he
could ever think she'd be glad he was hurt the way he
was. She needed him around to keep her going, to keep
her sane. She didn't know what she'd do without him,
big mouth or not.
"Stay with me Bos, please. I'm finding it hard
enough to keep awake myself, I need to keep talking."
Katy told Bosco as he closed his eyes, her eyelids
drooping as the need to sleep washed over her too.
Bosco opened his eyes again.
"We'll be at the hospital soon. We just have to
wait for back up. They'll get us to the hospital
you'll see." She told him drowsily.
"And then what?" Bosco asked clsoing his eyes.
"Then we live, without regrets. We really live, and
we find happiness where we can for as long as we
have." She told him crying.
"I don't think I can fight anymore Katy.... If the
guys could only hear me now. Geez, they'd think I was
even more of a screw up than they already do."
"I don't think they think you're a screw up. I
think it's just because you say what you think. They
never know what they're gonna get off you." Katy
consoled.
"Most of the time it's crap. I pride myself on it."
Bosco told her.
"You know what I think? I think you gotta have a
picture in your head."
"Are you delusional?" Bosco asked her smiling a weak
smile.
"You didn't let me finish... We never know when our
time's gonna come, but I think that every day you
gotta keep a picture in your head of the people you
care about the most just to get you through. That way
you keep everything in focus, you always have
something to keep going for."
"Who's yours?" Bosco asked her.
"Paul. He may not be here but he wanted me to do
whatever made me happy. Now I am, and in a way it's
like I'm doing something for him. What about you?"
Katy asked.
"She's sitting in the car right over there." Bosco
told Katy. "I'd do anything for her. She may not
know it but it's the truth."
"She's a special lady." Katy agreed. "If I'm honest,
I don't think Freds right for her. But it's her life
and she seems happy." Katy told him.
"Yeah that's what counts. She deserves to be
happy." Bosco told Katy sincerely.
"So do you." Katy replied.
"Well I got a great partner and job." Bosco told
her. "And I did have my health."
Katy nodded.
"You love her?" She asked moving again as her leg
got increasingly uncomfortable.
"Faith?"
Katy nodded.
"More than she'll ever know. Just seeing her face
every day makes my job worthwhile. You know I may
have a big mouth, I may be a pain, I may rub a lot of
people up the wrong way, but if I ever hurt her I
don't think I could forgive myself. All I want is to
see her happy, and if that's watching her while she's
with Fred then that's okay. As long as I'm around to
keep an eye on her."
"Those aren't the words of a selfish guy Bos." Katy
told him.
"I know." He told her. "Must be getting soft."
The gang members who had shot them walked back over,
leaving the shaken Kim and Doc alone, though the
ambulance was still guarded.
"Isn't this just cute? A cop and a paramedic
bonding. I am so touched." One of them teased.
"What do you want? You’re already watching us die."
Bosco told them.
"We want to see you suffer like Jamal, and we want
your friends to watch." Ray told them.
"Oh gosh please no." Kim said sadly from inside the
ambulance. Doc putting a comforting arm around his
partner.
"She's just a kid." Kim told him "She doesn't
deserve this."
"No-one does Kim, and we don't deserve to see it.
Faith's back there and she has to watch her Partner
and cousin lying there bleeding to death. We have it
easy compared to that."
"That kid has been through so much and yet she's so
strong. How can anyone that young be as strong as
that?"
"Some kids are pretty tough. But Kim you're strong
too. You've been through a lot and yet here you are
getting on with life. Don't see Katy as some kind of
exception, or something to measure your own strength
by because believe it or not you're just as strong as
she is."
"Doc I tried to end my life..." Kim told him sadly.
"But it didn't work and like Katy you're learning to
live. If she's taught you anything it's that you
have to fight every day, and I think if she gets
through this you can help each other out. She's
already had an effect on you...I mean you just have to
look at you to see that."
"She's a great kid." Kim commented.
"Yeah and I think Bos is out there realising that,
as well as a lot of other stuff. Who'd have thought
there'd be a sensitive side to a guy like that?"
"He's never gonna live this one down is he?" Kim
asked.
"If he lives." Doc commented quietly.
Faith closed her eyes as Ray walked over to Bosco
not wanting to see what was coming next. He loved
her. He had actually admitted it. So much had
changed in so little time and now she was going to
lose him without even being able to tell him how she
felt about him. He looked so fragile out
there...sounded so scared, she had hardly ever seen
that side of him, now it just broke her heart.
"So what are you gonna do big guy?" Bosco asked Ray
as Katy began to cry.
Ray once again kicked Bosco in his bad side, the
officer then screaming so loud that everything seemed
to stand still. He then grabbed Katy and pulled her
up on her bad leg, the young woman crying out, tears
streaming down her face.
"So where are your friends huh. Where are they? All
doing as they're told. They don't care about either
of you. They haven't even tried." Ray told them
glaring at Katy.
"Let me go." She screamed.
"Uh uh sweet thing you're mine." He told her pulling
her close to him. With all her strength Katy kneed
him and he fell to the ground just as back up arrived.
Feeling a new lease of life as all her colleagues
arrived, Faith, as well as the other officers all got
out of their squad cars pointing guns at the gang.
"Put your weapons down and move away from the
casualties." Officer Ty Davis called out as Officers
with shields closed in around the gang.
Ray once again got up, holding a gun to a very faint
Katy's head.
"Try anything and she dies." Ray told them. "You
don't wanna see that do you?" he asked them glaring at
Faith.
"Let her go." Faith yelled.
"You don't wanna go do you sweet thing?" Ray said to
the young woman who looked tiredly at him.
"That is just what she wants." Came a weak voice
from behind him. The man then felt himself cracked
around the head before falling to the ground
unconscious.
The police slowly advanced towards the gang, Kim and
Doc climbing out of the ambulance as fast as they
could, to be joined by Alex and Carlos who had also
arrived and they ran over to their casualties. As the
NYPD arrested the gang, Faith ran over to her semi
conscious partner and her cousin who had both fallen
to the ground, the rest of the police department
looking on shocked at seeing someone like Bosco
looking so weak.
"I don't...want to die...without...I Bosco started
before falling unconscious.
"Bos...Bosco....something’s wrong!" Faith shouted as
Carlos ran over. He felt for a pulse and couldn't
find one.
"He's not breathing. His hearts stopped."
"Neither’s Katy." Kim called from Katys side as she
and Doc started CPR.
"This can't be happening." Faith shouted as Sully
walked over to her and put a gentle arm around Faiths
shoulder. "Katy please....come on honey breathe...Oh
God." Faith added as she saw the force with which Kim
and Doc were trying to get Katy back.
"We need the defibrillator." Carlos shouted to Alex.
"Bosco....you come back to us. You hear me? Don't
you give up fighting now. Not after today...Come on
Bos."
"Come on sweetheart breathe." Kim said to the young
woman, as she tried to breathe life into her.
"Charge 100." Carlos shouted opening Bos' shirt and
placing the paddles on his chest. "Clear." He shouted
as the charge entered. He looked up at the monitor
they had hooked Bosco to.
"Nothing." Alex told her partner sadly.
"Charge 260." Carlos shouted, shocking Bosco once
again, Kim and Doc now getting ready to use their
defibrillator on Katy.
"Anything?" Faith asked.
Carlos shook his head.
"She's back." Kim told them a small smile on her
face. "We need to get her to the hospital straight
away." She then told them as they placed an oxygen
mask over the unconscious Katy's face, put a pressure
pad on her wound and then put a bandage around it.
They then lifted her on to a stretcher and wrapped her
up in blankets to keep her warm.
"You go. I’ll stay with Bos." Sully told Faith as
she angrily watched the gang members being led away.
"Charge 300." Carlos shouted shocking Bosco again.
"I have a weak pulse." Alex told Carlos as they
placed him on to a stretcher, then placing an oxygen
mask over his nose and mouth and pumping oxygen into
his weak body through the attached bag as they covered
his wound with a pressure pad.
"Lets get these two to a hospital." Kim told them as
they wheeled Katy over to their ambulance, Faith, who
was still in shock following. She looked back at
Sully who was with Bosco.
"I'll keep an eye on him." He told her as the whole
NYPD quietly watched two very injured workers being
loaded into Ambulances.
Faith, having climbed inside looked at Kim who was
checking monitors.
"How could we let this happen? It was her first
day." She asked as she stroked Katy's hair back off
her pale face.
"I don't know Faith. I really don't know." Kim told
her as she sat down opposite the young woman, taking
her small right hand in her own.
"You okay?" Kim asked Faith. "We all heard..."
Faith looked at Kim. She had tried to be strong
throughout all this for Bos and for Katy, but she
couldn't do it anymore. Now she needed the support
and she broke down in tears, Kim putting her arms
around her friend.
"Shush, I know it sucks." Kim told her.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't..."
"Are you kidding? Katy's family. Bos is your
partner. You're entitled to be upset more than any one
of us."
"I nearly lost them both Kim."
"I know." Kim told her. "I know just how much that
hurts. Faith they're fighters, both of them. They're
gonna be fine. They've survived this long. They came
back. If that's not clinging on to life, I don't know
what is." Kim told her adjusting the mask on Katy's
face.
The young woman weakly opened her eyes, looking
around the ambulance. She was obviously still in a
lot of pain even though she'd been given drugs to try
and make her more comfortable. She reached out her
hand to Faith.
"Hey sleepyhead. You scared us all there."
Katy looked around panicked.
"Hey it's okay. You're on your way to the
hospital." Kim reassured Katy.
"Bosco?" Katy whispered weakly.
"He's on his way too. You probably saved his life
sweetheart." Kim told Katy, watching as tears ran down
the womans face.
Katy closed her eyes.
"You rest okay. You’re safe now." Faith whispered
kissing the young woman on the forehead.
"Safe and sound." Kim added comfortingly as both
ambulances arrived at the hospital.
