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South Metro and Arapahoe County report improved cardiac-arrest survivability, crime declines
Summary
South Metro Fire reported higher cardiac-arrest survival and a field blood program that has been used 27 times; Arapahoe County's report recorded a nearly 14% drop in crime reports in 2025 and a steep decline in auto thefts. Council asked about staffing, school-safety, and community outreach.
South Metro Fire and the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office gave the Centennial City Council a quarterly public-safety briefing on March 3, reporting improvements in medical response outcomes and year-over-year crime trends.
South Metro Fire officials said Centennial logged 9,970 total calls in 2025, of which 6,730 were emergency-medical-service calls and about 120 were fires. The department reported cardiac-arrest survivability in the district of roughly 12.5 to 13 percent, compared with a national average of about 7 percent. "So it's almost twice the national average," the fire chief's office said, noting that training and system changes drove the result.
Fire officials…
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