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TAMPA, Fla. 鈥?A Florida father died after his ambulance broke down and it took nearly an hour to get him to the hospital. WFTS uncovered that this failure is part of arecord of repair problems and an even bigger problem putting the public at risk.When Richard Bateman, a 50-year-old father who traveled the world playing with heavy metal bands,collapsed in his liv stanley cup ing room on September 5, his wife, Amy Bateman, called 911.A Tampa Fire Rescue engine and ambulance arrived within minutes. But when they tried to drive hi vaso stanley m to the hospital, the ambulance would not start. The crew called for a backup rescue truck.The second ambulance arrived nearly 40 minutes after the first 911 call. It was heart-wrenching,  Amy Bateman said.  It was horrible. The ride to the hospital took 11 minutes. Moments after arrival, Richard Bateman was pronounced dead of a heart attack. If that first ambulance wouldnt have died, he might not have died,  said Amy Bateman.Recordsshow:That ambulance, Unit 7734,broke down due to a faulty alternator and was more than three weeks overdue for preventive maintenance on the day Richard Bateman died.The ambulance was sent to the repair shop 16 times in just two years, racking up $28,000 in repair and maintenance bills for steering, brakes and oil stanley taza  leak problems.And, the problems with Unit 7734 arent an isolated incident. Maintenance logs for Tampas other 27 working ambulances show 52 incidents of rescue trucks stalling or failing to start over a two-year period with prob