Worrying the firefighters, because they are worrying that the delay could turn deadly. And we have this story that you will see only on nbc bay area. And the First Responders from police to firefighters and paramedics are sounding alarm. Reporter they run through the traffic to get to an emergency, but now we are learning that ambulances in santa clara are not getting to every call these days because of the staffing issues. It happens several times a week. It is an ongoing issue where no ambulances get dispatched, because there is not enough in the system, and an ambulance will not be dispatched until am ambulance is arriving on scene and requested. And the practice is called sdo17. It is standard dispatch order 17. And this is happening in gilroy as well. Sdo17 is extremely concerning, because it is tying the our resources to the scene much longer than we have ever experienced. Reporter hayes says it is not rare for a crew to be there for 45 minutes. Any delay to get transported to th
Request. And in addition to three ambulances. That is so the equipment and the staffing to the tune of about 3 Million Dollars as well as restoring an h43 position or an operation section sheet and so i think that chief to answer your question specifically, supervisor tang, this will not get us into compliance, but it is heading in the right direction and i think that it will show that we are seriously, looking at getting back to where we need to get, recognized in that there were four years of uncertainty. And what we also agreed to, and it came up through, a suggestion and made at the mayors Budget Office and kate howard that although we did not get the 42 members that we were requesting we were getting 16 and the agreement could have a work group and really analyze this impact of this additional 16 members and how that works towards getting to that percentage. And all of the while looking at our response times as well. And in the work group will be will be comprised of the Fire Depa
Our analysis resulted in three major finding areas, staffing operational inefficiency and alternative to ems since 1997 the San Francisco Fire Department has provided emergency responses to two types of calls in 911 and Emergency Medical Services and suppression, and as this table shows a number of calls for medical services exceeds the number of calls for suppression, in 2013, 77 percent of all calls. From 1991 to 2008, the city maintained an area for area of responses in San Francisco this is a designation that is granted by the state ems authority, which restricts the number of providers to enable a predictable response through a central dispatch system, they enabled it in 2012, and enabled the fire amount to respond to a minimum of 80 percent of ambulance responses. In San Francisco, the Fire Department is not the only ambulance provider, for 911 medical calls. Although, currently two other providers, those are king american and amr that provide ambulance response for advanced call
The disagreement would be that the feeling is that 16 more people will fall and get to 80 percent and we dont believe that it will and our methodology is slightly different and that is why i think that the beauty of the work group to take a look at how the envision of 16 more people will work for us and then, maybe have a saved approach and hire more people in the next fiscal here. What is the other thing . Lets see, i did want to address and i know that people have had the particular questions and i had some questions as well, regarding you are probably wondering we had the ability to purchase the ambulances and why are they on the streets and that is my question as well. It is a work in progress, but the office of Contract Administration and they have been hugely tied up with a lot of projects and one of them was our fire boat project and we had a requisition that went into the oca and we are doing good work, but i think that there is some delays in november we requested the ten ambu
Address and i know that people have had the particular questions and i had some questions as well, regarding you are probably wondering we had the ability to purchase the ambulances and why are they on the streets and that is my question as well. It is a work in progress, but the office of Contract Administration and they have been hugely tied up with a lot of projects and one of them was our fire boat project and we had a requisition that went into the oca and we are doing good work, but i think that there is some delays in november we requested the ten ambulances and i am now hearing that it was closer than it was in november. November of what year . 2013. Okay. And as part of the. But it was allocated in. I leave that it was in 12. What was the delay in the request when it was allocated. I believe taking a look at the specifications of the ambulance and getting the work group together to look at the design of the ambulance and more efficient ambulances than we purchased in the past.