Nanaimo council wants to know how many medical calls Nanaimo Fire Rescue responds to and the cost of going to those calls
Some Nanaimo council members suspect the cost of the city’s firefighters responding to emergency medical calls is in the millions of dollars.
Last year, Nanaimo Fire Rescue, with an operating budget of just over $21 million a year, responded to 4,341 calls of all kinds. A breakdown of the type of medical calls would be useful, too, Armstrong said, noting they could be cardiac incidents, injuries or calls related to overdoses. Though council recognized then that it was a download to the municipality, it decided that was “something that we viewed as worth taking on for the citizens,” he said.
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