Posts Tagged: Response Times
LAFD Response Times Dip After Station Shutdowns …. (No! Really?)
Anybody Besides the Fire Chief and Mayor Surprised at This?
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NFPA 1710 Staffing and Legal Mandates
Today’s burning question: Are there any Federal laws or requirements that mandate that fire departments comply with or meet NFPA 1710 staffing levels or response times?
Answer: There are no laws that I am aware of on a Federal or state level that di…
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What happens in Las Vegas EMS plays out on TV. Firefighters make case private ambulance company is playing games with response times. AMR says it’s proud of its record.
Battle over a bigger role by private ambulance company grows.
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Ohhhhh…. It’s the Geography!
THE WALES AMBULANCE SERVICE IN UK HAS been under constant criticism for more than two years for its extraordinarily-long response times that are consistantly the worst in the UK.
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9 Minute Response Time….Get Used To It
I just read an article about people questioning a 9 minute response time. Apparently, numerous other apparatus were responding to other 911 calls and the house fire response in question got apparatus from a further fire station than the first or second due.
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Sleight of Hand in Franklin Park, IL?
We have progressed into a society that no longer calls the truth the truth, or a lie a lie. We are a people who have grown accustomed to “grey areas” in which one plus one can actually equal a submarine- if it can be expertly explained away before the next episode of Jersey Shore is on.
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Is anyone surprised? Baltimore City’s rotating closures fits the pattern and becomes critical only after someone dies.
STATter911.com column of a year ago stated the obvious.
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Fire Chiefs and Statistics
Some Fire Chiefs have devised a great way of showing success in their careers and within their departments. By altering the reporting criteria for call data they can manipulate the data. That data compared to former data (history) will show change. The p…
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