A Washington, D.C., firefighter has been dismissed after he and a colleague stopped at a Chick-fil-A while en route to a medical emergency, WRC-TV reported.

On March 24, the firefighter/EMTs assigned to Ambulance 3 chose to collect a fast food order instead of immediately responding to a 911 emergency call, where a 57-year-old woman was experiencing chest pain, according to WRC-TV.

The duo defended their actions in a report, claiming they had pre-ordered their meal through an app and the detour took “literally a few minutes tops.” The report, written by one of the firefighters, asserted that “there was no delay in patient care or response,” the outlet noted.

[Uh … if the detour took ‘a few minutes,’ then that is a delay of at least a few minutes, by definition. And that could have been the difference between survival and death. That takes precedence over a called-in order at a fast-food joint, or at least it should. — Ed]