The City Council intern who collapsed from the heat and had to wait more than 30 minutes for an ambulance blasted the city’s slow emergency response time today.
“It could have gotten there quicker,” Yvette Toro, 18, told The Post.
Toro, who fainted from the heat outside a Williamsburg school on Tuesday, gave high marks to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for using her authority to summon help, by calling Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and others.
“She did the right thing. A big thank you to her,” Toro told The Post.
Toro, an intern in the office of Brooklyn City Council member Diana Reyna said she “dehydrated” when she collapsed while Quinn and Reyna were answering questions during a press conference about a controversial city waste-transfer station.
Despite calls to 911 and elsewhere by Quinn’s staff, Toro lay on the ground until an ambulance from the volunteer Hatzolah service arrived. By the time an FDNY ambulance showed up, Toro was on her way to Woodhull Medical Center where she treated and later released.
Today she said she was fully recovered from her ordeal.
“I’m feeling good. Everything is fine,” Toro said.