Ricardo Torres-Cortez – Las Vegas Review-Journal
For six months last year, a three-person team was dispatched to 911 calls involving possible mental health crises in Clark County, helping ease the strain on emergency medical services and diverting people from hospital rooms, according to officials.
The Clark County Fire Department classifies those incidents as Card 25 calls, which in 2024 had a hospitalization rate of 82 percent in its 9,995 responses…