New York, NY - GPS To Speed FDNY and EMT's Respond Time
New York, NY - Ambulances and firetrucks will get to New Yorkers in need of help more quickly now - thanks to a $50 million, high-tech tracking system.
By the end of the summer, all fire trucks and ambulances will be equipped with a GPS-type system called Automated Vehicle Location.
Last September, the city installed the AVL system on 277 ambulances in Staten Island, Brooklyn and parts of Queens to test them out. The results were encouraging - average response times plummeted by 33 seconds.
"This really does make a very big difference," Mayor Bloomberg said.
By the end of the summer, all fire trucks and ambulances will be equipped with a GPS-type system called Automated Vehicle Location.
Last September, the city installed the AVL system on 277 ambulances in Staten Island, Brooklyn and parts of Queens to test them out. The results were encouraging - average response times plummeted by 33 seconds.
"This really does make a very big difference," Mayor Bloomberg said.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 4/21/2006 12:30:00 PM
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