This is horrible. What is going on in Toronto that ambulances take 30 minutes to respond?
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> Last year, Toronto paramedics reported that in 2023 there were 1,200 occasions where no ambulances were available to respond to an emergency call. That was up from only 29 occasions in 2019.
> CUPE Local 416, the union representing 1,400 paramedics working in Toronto, has also reported high instances of burnout in recent years.
- 2022 - https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/01/toronto-ran-out-ambulanc...
- 2023 - https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/10/paramedics-raise-alarm-c...
from the 2025 Program Summary for Toronto Paramedic Services, https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8d5d-2025-...:
- Page 3
- Avg 90th Percentile response times have gone from 12 minutes in 2019 & 2020 to 14.5 mins in 2024 and almost 15 minutes as a 2025 target: (12.1, 12.1, 13.0, 14.2, 14.0, 14.5, 14.8)
- staffing is up more than 50% in that time, while number of patient transports is up just 10% during that same timeframe
- Page 4
- scary graphic - graph concerning Daily Hours with < 10% available ambulances
- 2019-2020 - Daily Average - 0 hours, 43 minutes
- 2021 - Daily Average - 2 hours, 29 minutes
- 2022 - Daily Average - 5 hours, 57 minutes
- 2023 - Daily Average - 4 hours, 33 minutes
- 2024 - Daily Average - 4 hours, 9 minutes