The law had gone into effect, but no extra money had been put into the emergency systems across the country. Washington did like to complicate things.

(The Lunatic Cafe, page 258, paragraph 5)

* An ambulance had to be on the scene of any murder, killing, accident, in case the remains might be humanoid. This also included carting away dead carcasses of coyotes as if they were potentially werewolves.