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With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling - so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill - and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital. Help is on the way, the operator said.It never arrived.Nearly 30 hours later - and 10 calls from the couple to 911, four 911 calls to them and at least a dozen calls between 911 and paramedics - Curtis Mitchell died at his home. His electricity knocked out, his heat long off, the 50-year-old former steelworker waited, huddled beneath blankets on his sofa.Edge, his longtime girlfriend, told CBS News The Early Show earlier this month, He didn t have to die the way he died. He was in pain, a lot of pain. He shouldn t have to die like that. Acco
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