At last night's CPR class, the teacher (he is a fireman and first aider) told us that the response time on the island is about seven minutes and in Seattle, it is about five minutes. Really good. From Detroint, MI station WXYZ:
Duggan calls lengthy 911 delays 'outliers,' but vows to address problems revealed
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan defended the city’s response times for urgent calls to 911 in wake of a 7 Action News investigation, but vowed to address problems revealed by the report.
“We’re taking the reporting seriously, we’re looking at it very carefully,” Duggan said. “I thought Ross Jones’s stories were accurate, and they were. I thought they weren’t fair in the sense that the 13-minute response times are accurate, but there are outliers.”
In a months-long investigation, 7 Action News repeatedly reported that the average response times for the most urgent 911 calls in Detroit hovers between 12 and 13 minutes—a big improvement from years ago.
But that’s not the whole story. Some 3,000 priority 1 calls—including rapes, armed robberies and active shootings—took 30 minutes or more just to get a response last year. Hundreds took an hour or more.
Glad I do not live in that socialist shithole.
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