Whether it’s a robbery in progress at a local business, a home with a fire in the kitchen or a resident suffering a heart attack, seconds mean the difference between safety and harm and life and death.
We care deeply about everyone we serve. The people who live, work and visit our city deserve the highest quality police, fire and emergency medical services. Unfortunately, that’s not the case in Sunnyvale right now.
Why? Because for approximately the last 12 months, some Sunnyvale residents have been unable to receive sufficient emergency paramedic care and ambulance transportation due in part to a countywide shortage of paramedics.
Over the last year, we’ve treated patients on medical calls where it took an ambulance 20 minutes to arrive instead of within our required eight-minute response time. If a patient is suffering from a stroke, heart attack or any other life-threatening condition, those extra 12 minutes may be catastrophic. There have even been occasions when no ambulance arrived at all.