According to the data revealed that FDNY has been accused of continuous staffing and recruitment problems, the response time of an emergency ambulance has jumped last year.
The average ambulance to an emergency ambulance that threatens life has increased from 8 minutes to 34 seconds or more in 2024, and 8 minutes 48 seconds in the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year from July 1 to November. I did. Mayor's management report。
FDNY's goal is that the ambulance time is to make it less than 7 minutes for such a call.
Response time has been creeping in recent years. In FY2022, the ambulance time for an emergency situation was 7 minutes 26 seconds.
The sum of the average response to emergencies that threaten life by ambulances and fire companies increased by 18 seconds, from 6 minutes and 32 seconds last year to 6 minutes and 50 seconds in the first quarter of this fiscal year.
The report states that FDNY leaders are struggling to arrange and hire the EMT and emergency team in the emergency medical service unit.
“Emergency medical services (EMS) are not only facing the lack of resources in terms of emergency medical technicians and emergency staff, but also faces the small pipeline of potential recruitment,” FDNY says. I mentioned in the report.
“This decrease in capacity leads to less service time per day of EMS.”
The unions representing 4,200 rescue teams, emergency medical technicians, and fire inspectors are one of the few people who have not reached a new labor contract under Mayor Eric Adams. The low wage was a painful point to save an ambulance.
In comparison, the fire department is stable in 5 minutes and 55 seconds, and the average response time to medical emergency, two seconds lower than last year.
Still, the target of the target FDNY response time is 4 minutes 38 seconds in an emergency that threatens life.
Former FDNY Commissioner Tom von Essen accused the former mayor Bill de Brassio and the current Mayor of Eric Adams, accusing the ambulance time increased.
“Deblasio's incompetence and incorrect management have not been modified by Adams, and said to the post, Fon Essen, a firefighter on September 11, 2001.
“We have promised that EMT and the rescue workers have promised a better payment and have broken their promises,” said Von Essen, a regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Bureau in the Pandemic. “What they did during COVID was a surprising thing. The current response time is the shortage of new employees (salary issues) and more common ambulances and more ambulances in FDNY. It gets worse due to the need for poor management.
