Wrightwood officials say visitors double parking and food vendors setting up shop on the road are some of the issues creating gridlock for first responders on their way to emergencies.
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. -- While families gear up for a snow day in Wrightwood, residents and officials in those areas are unhappy with how visitors are leaving behind trash and creating traffic chaos for first responders.
"Pretty much any kind of debris you can think of is all along this route," one person described to Eyewitness News. "Cars doubled parked on the side of the state highway, in the emergency lane area, where there is no legal parking to begin with, and that creates a gridlock that emergency vehicles cannot get through," said Sadie Albers of the Wrightwood Community Services District.
"Case in point, we have areas up here that would normally take us five to seven minutes to respond to a call with red lights and sirens, and it's now taking us up to 45 minutes to an hour to get to those people," San Bernardino County Assistant Fire Chief Dave Corbin said."When you're talking in terms of someone with a serious injury, it becomes a matter of life and death.
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