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Decatur City reports mixed May EMS response rates; 19 cardiac-arrest saves in 2024
Summary
Decatur City fire/EMS reported May 2025 response-rate variances across call types and recounted 19 cardiac-arrest saves in 2024, with most saves inside Decatur city limits; officials said some delayed responses were tied to units coming from Priceville and Hartsville.
Decatur City fire and emergency medical services reported to the Decatur City Council on May 20, 2025, that response performance in May was uneven across priority call categories and that the department recorded 19 cardiac-arrest saves in 2024.
The report said fractile response performance for Echo, Delta and Bravo calls inside city limits was 91%, while those same call types in the department—————————————————the jurisdiction labeled "PJ" was 85%. For Alpha, Charlie and Omega calls the city recorded a 98% fractile response and the PJ area recorded 100%.
Those measures are used to track how often the department meets target response-time thresholds. The presenter said the longest response time in the PJ in May was 16 minutes and the longest in the city was 19 minutes for Echo/Delta/Bravo calls. The department reported about 26 overages in the city during May; staff said 10 of those overages occurred when a unit had to respond from Priceville or Hartsville and the system status management process did not reposition resources in time to cover the calls.
The report also recounted 19 cardiac-arrest saves across 2024: 14 inside Decatur city limits, one in Hartzell, and four elsewhere in the county. The department said it presented certificates to responders and is awaiting challenge coins from ZOLL to issue to personnel involved in the saves. Staff noted two pre-hospital deliveries in 2024, both in the county.
Officials described May as an irregular month for call volume, with several days exceeding 100 calls and other days dropping to 50—————————————————to 80 calls; staff suggested the latter part of May (including school dismissals and the Memorial Day weekend) likely contributed to the spikes. The department also reported that, during the Jubilee event that month, no festival transports were required.
The meeting record shows a motion to accept the item that began the report, and participants indicated no further discussion; the transcript does not specify the mover, seconder or the recorded vote tally for that motion.
No formal new policy or funding decision was recorded during the presentation; the reporting staff and council members acknowledged the metrics and the discussion concluded without additional formal direction recorded in the transcript.
