No state mandate requiring ambulance at school games, leaves player waiting for medical aid

HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A high school football player was left to wait for medical aid Saturday after being injured during a game.

A Hampton freshman broke his femur after just four plays into a junior varsity football game at Chartiers Valley School District.

"The pain, like, got to 10, and then it shot to 1,000," Kyle Fuller said.

Kyle Fuller’s mother, Kelly Fuller, held her son’s hand while waiting for an ambulance and began to question where it was.

"The EMT says, ‘We're trying to call for an ambulance to get here. It may be a few minutes.’ The (referees) were standing there saying, ‘They're trying to get one for you,’ and we could hear their walkie-talkie going off. We don't know where an ambulance is," Kelly Fuller said.

11 Investigates found that there is no state mandate requiring an ambulance to be a high school football games. The PIAA Sports Medicine Advisory Board recommends for one to be present, but the decision is at the individual school’s discretion.

Chartiers Valley School District’s spokeswoman told Channel 11’s Courtney Brennan that it always paid for an ambulance to be on standby at every football game, but it was at another call when Kyle Fuller got hurt.

Kelly Fuller said the game should have never started without the ambulance being there.

"No child should ever lay there. No parent should ever go through that," she said.

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