"It's absolutely shocking to learn that four out of five cardiac-arrest calls in New York City end in the death of a patient," Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, told The Post. "New York City needs to address the ever-increasing response times and volume of calls with more resources for the FDNY."
"The FDNY needs to figure out why we can't get fire trucks and ambulances there fast enough, and we need to reverse this trend. We're talking about literally thousands of lives lost every year . . . and survivability is directly related to response times."
For a third straight fiscal year, FDNY firefighters and medics took longer to get to medical emergencies. Combined response times to life-threatening medical emergencies were 10 minutes and three seconds in FY 2024, up 13 seconds from the previous year. Cardiac cases not treated with CPR in eight minutes usually end in death."
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