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SEATTLE (AP) -- The head of a Brooklyn
ambulance company said Tuesday that the president of Starbucks has
personally apologized after rescue workers in New York were forced to
pay a Starbucks shop $130 for water to treat victims of the terrorist
attack.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attack, rescue
workers rushed into a nearby Starbucks store to get water to treat shock
victims, Rapisarda said. Ambulance company workers said employees in the
shop demanded they pay $130 for three cases of bottled water. The
workers paid cash, out of their own pockets.
Midwood Ambulance Service President Al
Rapisarda said he received a hand-delivered reimbursement check-and a
personal call from Starbucks president Orin Smith-after reports of the
incident became public.
"It was a misunderstanding with Starbucks," Rapisarda said after talking to
Smith.
Midwood Ambulance Service alerted Starbucks
to the incident in an e-mail, which was obtained by the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Smith said Tuesday he did not know why the coffee shop near the World
Trade Center towers charged the rescue workers.
"It's totally inconsistent with the kind of behavior we would have expected
from our people, so it has been very
upsetting to learn of this," Smith said in an interview with The
Associated Press.
Reached by telephone, the manager of the
shop, the Battery Park Plaza Starbucks, declined to comment.
SEATTLE (AP) -- The head of a Brooklyn
ambulance company said Tuesday that the president of Starbucks has
personally apologized after rescue workers in New York were forced to
pay a Starbucks shop $130 for water to treat victims of the terrorist
attack.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attack, rescue
workers rushed into a nearby Starbucks store to get water to treat shock
victims, Rapisarda said. Ambulance company workers said employees in the
shop demanded they pay $130 for three cases of bottled water. The
workers paid cash, out of their own pockets.
Midwood Ambulance Service President Al
Rapisarda said he received a hand-delivered reimbursement check-and a
personal call from Starbucks president Orin Smith-after reports of the
incident became public.
"It was a misunderstanding with Starbucks," Rapisarda said after talking to
Smith.
Midwood Ambulance Service alerted Starbucks
to the incident in an e-mail, which was obtained by the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Smith said Tuesday he did not know why the coffee shop near the World
Trade Center towers charged the rescue workers.
"It's totally inconsistent with the kind of behavior we would have expected
from our people, so it has been very
upsetting to learn of this," Smith said in an interview with The
Associated Press.
Reached by telephone, the manager of the
shop, the Battery Park Plaza Starbucks, declined to comment.

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