NYC response times to fires, medical emergencies soaring — along with fire deaths

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For a second consecutive year, New York City first responders took longer to get to fires and other medical emergencies, while more people died in blazes.

“[Unless] the city and state take EMS seriously as an essential service, we’re going to see a total collapse of the system,” he added.

Response times are also 82 seconds – or 16.1% — higher than the 8 minute and 28 second average in fiscal 2019. Battery fires have surpassed electrical fires at the top cause of deaths the past year, officials said.

 

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