You can lay that squarely on the shoulders of Mary Suhm and those in the council who enabled her. In DFD she cut staffing to way below what it was 40 years ago when EMS first started and now that the volume has increased a hundred times, the staffing has been cut by 20% of what it was 40 years ago. DFD dispatch went from the top 5% to the bottom third in efficiency ranking in the 1st year following the cuts. But until Joe Millionaire has a family member die, or his house burns down because a storm was rolling through and there were hold times exceeding 5-7 minutes...nothing will be done. People in the southern sectors can have their houses burn, their relatives die and nothing happens.RPBrown wrote:No different in Dallas. They may come, they may not. If they do they will be late to the party. Not the responders fault, it the dispatchers, at least in Dallas it is.
On the 911/Police side the cuts were made by attrition with budgeting cut, disallowing funds for replacement. But hey, Dallas has a beautiful new bridge that goes nowhere and new signs coming for the convention center. So rest easy Dallas, you have nice things to look at while your house is burning.