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An elderly patient was killed and a paramedic injured Wednesday night after an ambulance combusted in Kailua, Hawaii.

When emergencies happen, seconds matter. We pay a lot of attention to how quickly ambulances get to the scene of an emergency, but picking up the patient is only half of the picture. The other half is what happens once that patient gets to a hospital.

NBC 7 Investigates discovered the trip from the parking lot into the emergency room can take hours. In some extreme cases, it’s taking more than two hours to transfer the care of a patient. Despite a wide awareness of the problem, lawmakers, ambulance providers and hospitals can’t seem to agree on a solution.

A man who jumped in front of a moving ambulance in the middle of Harbor Drive was taken into custody after San Diego police used a stun gun to take him down near Seaport Village on Sunday.

San Diego police used a stun gun to take down a man who intercepted an amublance near Seaport Village on Sunday.

San Diego Fire-Rescue helped three people escape from a Tesla stuck on top of an ambulance after going over an embankment.

San Diego Fire-Rescue crews had to pull three people from a Tesla that went off an embankment Wednesday and was saved from plummeting further by a city ambulance.

Falck, the City of San Diego’s new ambulance provider, began service on Saturday, months after the city council voted to switch providers.

Falck Mobile Health has 35 days left to roll out 66 new ambulances and employ 350 employees in the field