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Fire commission hails supplemental request to add dozens of paramedics amid rising call volume
Summary
The San Francisco Fire Commission heard that city leaders proposed a supplemental budget to add 50 ambulance paramedics, building on prior hires and bringing total planned EMS hires to about 95 FTEs; commissioners praised the staffing plan and asked for clearer reporting on response times and program structure.
Chief of Department Janine Nicholson told the Fire Commission that city leaders last week introduced a supplemental budget request to add 50 ambulance paramedics to the Fire Department’s EMS division. "[The mayor] introduced a supplemental budget request for an additional 50 paramedics," Nicholson said, adding that the request builds on 10 paramedics earlier included in the adopted budget and the 35 community paramedics the department has previously added.
Those numbers, Nicholson said, would translate to roughly 95 new full-time EMS positions when combined with prior approvals: 60 paramedics for ambulance operations, 35 community paramedics and…
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