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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 05:08 PM Mar 2014

FDNY ambulances take more than 9 minutes to get to life-threatening emergencies

ERIN DURKIN

City ambulances are taking nine and a half minutes to get to the scene of life threatening emergencies, new city data show.

The average EMS response time was 9 minutes 23 seconds last year - the first time the city has counted response times beginning as soon as someone calls 911.

For the first two months of this year, the number was an even higher 9 minutes 42 seconds.

Pols cried foul over the slow response at a City Council hearing Thursday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/fdny-ambulances-9-minutes-life-threatening-emergencies-blog-entry-1.1737057

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