Rural CT towns can see emergency response times lag far behind others. Here’s what the numbers show.

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Looks like Rural towns in Connecticut have a hard time getting EMT's and AEMT's

Rural CT towns can see emergency response times lag far behind others. Here’s what the numbers show.

There were 42,709 emergency responses involving patients with cardiac emergencies

www.courant.com

DPH report. https://www.scribd.com/document/955974167/Connecticut-state-Office-of-Emergency-Medical-Services

 

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Rural CT towns can see emergency response times lag far behind others. Here’s what the numbers show.

Medics respond to emergencies on average about a minute faster in urban towns in Connecticut compared to the suburbs and nearly three minutes faster compared to the rural areas of the state, according to a report by the state Office of Emergency Medical Services. The report is released each year...

www.yahoo.com

here are the "far behind" response times:

According to the report, urban towns had the most emergency responses (504,724) and the shortest average response time of 7.02 minutes. Suburban towns had 104,457 calls with an average response time of 8.03 minutes.

Rural towns had the fewest calls (93,324) and the longest average response time of 9.74 minutes, the report said.

The Average response time was 8.16 minutes; this is a case of "duh" because rural times are ALWAYS going to be slower than urban ones, primarily due to distance traveled. Not only that, but urban systems (typically) have more funding and more units to handle the higher call volume.

There is also a very unpopular opinion that if you want urban service levels, you should either pay urban taxes or move to the cities. if you want cheaper living, with less regulations, move to the sticks, but don't expect to get the same perks when you are miles from everyone as you would if you were 10 feet from your neighbor. There are tradeoffs to everything.