An Etobicoke family is speaking out after spending minutes on hold with 911 while their infant was choking.
Lianne and Tim Ray’s infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness on April 15 after he began choking on cereal at the dinner table.
But when Tim Ray called 911, he was put on hold for five minutes and 23 seconds, according to Toronto police. In a panic, he hung up and tried to save his son himself.
“We thought he was gone. Everybody around us thought he was gone,” Lianne Ray said. “We’re just, even still, not sure how we managed to keep him alive in that
