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Have had 4 occasions dealing with 911 calls. Two times for a family member here in TV, the other two times, cardiac arrests for our street's AED alert system. Each time, fire dept vehicles with EMT's arrived extremely quickly. All events took place on my street. Ambulance arrived shortly afterwards. All responders were fast, professional, caring.

My house backs to Morse Blvd and each and every day I can see and hear ambulances, fire trucks, going to and from the fire station. What is troubling is watching cars not give the Emergency vehicle clear passage. Oh I imagine sometimes the traffic may prevent someone from pulling over quickly, but most of the time, that doesn't seem to be the case. Emergency vehicles must make additional siren blasts to get cars in front of them to move. Crossing the bridge and a couple of traffic circles can slow down a large vehicle without additional traffic, it is so much slower when waiting for vehicles to get out of the way.
There will be delays, sadly, getting emergency personnel to the emergency sometimes. This community has many fire stations, many EMTs, AED devices located in neighborhoods, community facilities....much more than many other locations for responders, stations, EMT professionals. Doesn't hurt to take a CPR course, it's great to have AED's in your neighborhood. Pay if you can, don't pay if that's your preference. If you are in need of AED intervention, I'm sure neighborhood responders don't check a list to see if you've contributed. If you have, good, you've done something helpful for your fellow man. If you haven't, well, who are we to judge.