http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4139529

http://www.mercurynews.com/

His friend may have been dead, his brother was bleeding and Kulbir Dhaliwal was pleading for an ambulance, some towels, a helicopter, anything.

"I don't see anybody here. It's been 10 minutes. Where is everybody?" he asked, his voice high and distressed, as a 911 dispatcher tried to calm him down.

"The ambulance! ... Get me some towels, man! What's wrong with these people?" he said, trying to persuade an employee at a San Francisco zoo cafe to help, listening to sirens in the distance. "My brother's about to die out here!"

A Siberian tiger was on the loose at the San Francisco Zoo. A series of 911 calls and emergency communications released for the first time Tuesday revealed the fear, confusion, shock and disbelief that ensued after the frantic young man reported the attack - and raised more questions about the zoo's response.

One zoo employee's first reaction to reports that a Siberian tiger was on the loose was: "That's impossible."

But the impossible happened on Christmas Day at the San Francisco Zoo, when a tiger escaped her grotto and attacked three men from San Jose, killing Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, and mauling his friend, Paul Dhaliwal, Kulbir's younger brother. Soon after Kulbir Dhaliwal's call for help, the tiger turned on him.

The tapes could support allegations that the zoo was ill-prepared to deal with the attack and that officials wasted valuable time thinking the report was a hoax and then overstating the problem

911 calls
http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/mult...ger_chp911.mp3

http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/mult...r_first911.mp3

http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/mult...d_dispatch.mp3

http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/mult..._zoosafety.mp3

http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/mult...tigerloose.mp3