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Hunters Ambulance and Meriden Fire report steady response times, rising calls and equipment needs
Summary
Hunters Ambulance reported strong Q2 response-time compliance and rising opioid overdoses; Meriden Fire Department reported ~2,800 Q3 calls, staffing levels below authorized strength, apparatus replacement needs and grant requests for UTVs and thermal imagers.
Hunters Ambulance and the Meriden Fire Department presented operational reports to the Public Safety Committee on Oct. 1, outlining call volume trends, response-time performance, staffing and equipment needs.
Dave Di Loreto, operations supervisor for Hunters Ambulance, told the committee Hunters responded to roughly 825 Priority 1 calls in Q2 and achieved its ~9-minute response-time objective about 99.8% of the time; Priority 2 (non‑lights/sirens) responses averaged about 430 calls and nearly met the organization’s <15-minute target (about 99.9%). Hunters reported about 2,430 patient transports and 516 no‑transports/refusals in the quarter. Di Loreto also detailed overdose response metrics: 38 requests for Narcan in Q2 (9 in April, 11 in May, 18 in June), 35 patients alive at scene and three deceased; three patients were repeated overdose contacts.
Councilors asked Hunters to break out responses by individual…
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