Chest Pain Response Waits as Hungry D.C. Firefighters Stop to Get Food

Sometimes after a busy day, it's hard to ignore your growling stomach.

No matter what, it's time to grab a bite. And that's just what two D.C. firefighters did last week.

Despite getting dispatched for a woman with chest pains, an ambulance crew stopped at Chick-fil-A first, according to WRC. 

They were a mile away from the call and stopped because they had already ordered their food. One crew member wrote it was for "“literally a few minutes tops.”

They had been dispatched along with a medic to a medical office for a 57-year-old suffering chest pains.

The crew, according to a report obtained by the reporter, had busy day, were hungry, fatigued and wanted to stop for food.

Additionally, they wrote: “there was no delay in patient care or response.”

They were dispatched because they were closer than the medic unit. However, they arrived at the same time.

"Our response monitoring system captured an anomaly in the response of Ambulance 3," a fire official said in a statement to the media.

The two involved have been placed on 'no patient contact' status as the department investigates.