. > waiting for an ambulance inor the the district has become a well documented problem inlem recent months. as the cit my grows, calls for service increased and the fire department struggles to keep cag up with the demand. just last week a man who had h been stabbed in the chest and a was in cardiac arrest waited approximately 20 minutes for ant ambulance to take him to the hospital and he later died. d paul wagner joins us now with w the story. s paul, what is going on in. >>reporter: this is somethingot that we've been watching for months now.mont > i know you have. >>reporter: it's been more tham a year or two that we've been be watching this. this is just another case that we're going to document. on january 27, just a little over a week ago, a couple got g into an argument inside an apartment in southeast and according to police, one stabbee the other in the chest. the i was just after 10:00 on a wednesday morning.we help arrived within just a couple of minutes of the call, but an ambulance was still very far away. and when officials on the scene asked for a closer one, they we