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Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s aide Lauren Hitt is taken away by paramedics Wednesday morning.
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his wife made an unscheduled trip to a hospital to visit a campaign aide who suffered a seizure outside his Brooklyn home Wednesday morning.
When asked if the staffer, Lauren Hitt, would be all right, de Blasio replied, “Yeah,” and promised an update at a later event.
Hitt lost her balance and fell onto the sidewalk about 7:15 a.m. as she spoke to a journalist across the street from the de Blasios’ Park Slope home. Hitt fell into a pile of trash bags, but did not appear to hit her head. She appeared to suffer a seizure for about 30 seconds.
“We were just talking then it looked like she tripped. I didn’t know what was happening,” said the journalist, who asked not to be named.
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Two police officers, a bystander, and four members of the press rushed to the woman’s aid and put a blanket under her head. She regained consciousness moments after the seizure passed.
The responding officers called an ambulance, which arrived within four minutes.
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Hitt was brought to nearby New York Methodist Hospital, where she was conscious and alert.
De Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, were driven to the nearby hospital at 8:30 a.m. and returned home about 20 minutes later.
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