"[H]urry up and bring him out so we can help"

A few minutes later, the officer observed a nurse shout to the paramedics for help, Ballew said.

“He’s having cardiac arrest!” the nurse exclaimed, the officer recalled.

But the paramedics responded that the patient had to be brought to them since they were not allowed to enter the building, according to the report.

A second employee pleaded for help and said they were providing CPR and “could not move the patient and disrupt the rescue effort,” Ballew wrote in his report.

“You are doing the same thing we would have to do if we went in,” one of the fire personnel said, according to Ballew. “So, hurry up and bring him out so we can help.”