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SFFD EMS reports stable call volume, rollout of street crisis teams and buprenorphine on ambulances

San Francisco Fire Commission · April 12, 2023
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Assistant Deputy Chief Sandra Tong told commissioners EMS averaged about 356 calls per day in March, described consolidation of street wellness and crisis teams into a street crisis response team, highlighted community volunteer missions and said paramedics will begin carrying buprenorphine for opioid response.

Assistant Deputy Chief Sandra Tong gave the commission an update on EMS and community paramedicine activities for March. Tong said the department averaged about 356 calls per day and held a paramedic in-service training that completed March 31. Market share for the departmentambulance response was roughly 75%.

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