24 Hours on the Frontlines of Florida’s Flakka Crisis

VIDEO JAN 8, 2016

A reporter spends 24 hours with Ft. Lauderdale ambulance crews as they respond to flakka calls.

"You don't know how they're going to act," one EMT says. "That's why we send so much manpower going to all these flakka calls." The first call came in in less than an hour.

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