Fire and EMS chiefs flag overdose-data discrepancies, propose shared data warehouse
Spokane Fire Department reported a recent downward trend in dispatches and noted that overdose and deceased counts can vary between fire, police and the medical examiner. Fire leaders said they are building a data warehouse to reconcile CAD, EMS and ME records and improve overdue toxicology reporting.
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The Spokane Fire Department told the council that overdose-related counts and 'deceased' tallies do not yet align across agency data systems, and that toxicology and medical-examiner findings lag behind dispatch and EMS records.
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