By JANON FISHER
May 11, 2008
A 70-year-old grandmother of nine bled to death because firefighters from Bedford-Stuyvesant's Engine Company 214 made a slipshod effort to find her in her four-story Halsey Street apartment building after a 911 call last year, her family claims in a lawsuit.
Firefighters knocked on a neighbor's door and then "sat outside in the truck" on Mother's Day last year, as Muriel Holloway bled to death after an implanted treatment valve in her arm opened up, according to the complaint filed by her family.She had been undergoing kidney dialysis treatment for 13 years.
"I keep thinking if someone else was here quicker, my mother could still be here," Elliot Holloway, 54, told The Post last year.
An FDNY investigation cleared Engine Company 214 of any wrongdoing after furious paramedics with Battalion 38, who eventually found Holloway over half an hour after the 911 call, called for an investigation.
"They did all they could," said Fire Department spokesman Frank Gribbon, of Engine 214's efforts.
