Response to 111(911) call patients too slow

enjoynz said:
Yet again the problem of not enough frontline staff has hit the headlines.
What are the times you are meant to be at a 911 call in your State,area?
Or are there no set times?

Article as attached!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10566171

Cheers Enjoynz
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If you wnat some input from little 'ol California USA.
I worked Ambulance for a city surrounded by farmland which combined incompased 39.0 sq mi and had a population of 200,000. We had a contractual response time of no more than 7 1/2 minutes. Pretty hard to meet becasue of traffic and the "domino effect" that occures when several calls occur in the same section of town and every Ambulance is further away than the last. Up where I live in the Siera Nevada Mountain our Ambulance Service staffs 4 fulltime ALS cars and 1 12 hour ALS car to cover ~800 sq miles (not counting the inaccessable forests) with a populations of 60,00o (which rises by 3-5 times on weekends. There response times are horrible. On top of that most of teh county is covered (Fire Department-wise) by volunteers. So Fire (with First Responders and some EMT's) are usually on scene in 3-8 minutes (95% of the time) while Ambulance response time is usually 2-3 times that, if not more. A response of 1 hour for ALS care is not unheard if in the High Country. So obviously ther is no set response time for them. That said, I think "response times" should be fast, but often times it isn;t really practicle and is one of the realities that people should deal with when choosing where they want to live.
 
I believe my city's 911 response time is ~12 minutes.
 
Our contracted response time is 8:59, yes, there's nights we have trouble meeting it.
 
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