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Decatur Fire Rescue reports high EMS fractile response rates, details staffing, transports and time-exception process
Summary
At a Decatur City meeting, Decatur Fire Rescue leaders reported monthly and quarterly EMS response-rate statistics, staffing and transport volumes, and explained time-exception procedures after several missed-response incidents including a train delay. Presenters offered differing aggregate quarter figures; no formal actions were taken.
Decatur Fire Rescue reported broadly strong emergency medical services (EMS) response times for January through March and described staffing, transport volumes and the department’s process for reviewing missed-response time exceptions.
The department’s returning chief, Chief England, summarized monthly figures and said "for the first quarter combined for fractile responses, for the city limits, [it] is 97%. And for the police jurisdiction, is 98%." He told the meeting the city’s ordinance designates Decatur Fire as the primary EMS responder in city limits and described how fractile-response benchmarks are counted.
Later in the same discussion, Tyler Spiekel, Decatur Fire Rescue staff, presented more detailed monthly counts and slightly different quarter aggregates. Spiekel said, "We had a total of…
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