Jennah Pendleton – The Sacramento Bee
Fewer than 80 “high utilizers” of emergency services have cost the Sacramento Fire Department $12.5 million in less than five years.
In the years 2021-2025, 79 people were responsible for 5,191 responses from emergency medical services, costing the already financially strained department significant time and money. These calls took up an average of 12% of the city’s EMS time per year, for what amounts to 0.014% the city’s population…