FDNY ambulance’s average response times to life-threatening medical emergencies climbed by almost 30 seconds last fiscal year compared with the previous year, according to the recently released Mayor’s Management Report, the fourth year in a row that response times for the department’s ambulances have worsened.
It took ambulances 11 minutes, 21 seconds on average to reach the scene of emergencies for the period between July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, nearly two minutes longer than during FY 2021 — the time frame that included the height of the pandemic — when ambulances took 9 minutes, 34 seconds to reach the scene of the call.
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