FDNY EMTs and paramedics took 35 more seconds to travel to the scene of medical emergencies during the four-month period ending in October that they did a year earlier, according to the recently released Mayor’s Preliminary Management Report.
The average response time to medical emergencies for ambulances, when counting dispatch and travel time, was seven minutes and 55 seconds during the four-month period, exactly a minute longer than the target set for the current fiscal year.
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