{"generated_by":"src/articles/the_ambulance_is_slower/viz.py","charts":{"decades":{"kind":"lines","format":"mmss","title":"The slowest year since 1988","subtitle":"Average ambulance response to life-threatening calls, fiscal years 1988 to 2026, as the city reported it each year","axis":"Average response (minutes:seconds)","x_axis":"Fiscal year (July to June)","x":[["1988","1988"],["1989","1989"],["1990","1990"],["1991","1991"],["1992","1992"],["1993","1993"],["1994","1994"],["1995","1995"],["1996","1996"],["1997","1997"],["1998","1998"],["1999","1999"],["2000","2000"],["2001","2001"],["2002","2002"],["2003","2003"],["2004","2004"],["2005","2005"],["2006","2006"],["2007","2007"],["2008","2008"],["2009","2009"],["2010","2010"],["2011","2011"],["2012","2012"],["2013","2013"],["2014","2014"],["2015","2015"],["2016","2016"],["2017","2017"],["2018","2018"],["2019","2019"],["2020","2020"],["2021","2021"],["2022","2022"],["2023","2023"],["2024","2024"],["2025","2025"],["2026","2026"]],"x_ticks":["1988","1995","2000","2005","2010","2015","2020","2026"],"series":[["rebuilt","Rebuilt from the dispatch file","Dispatch-file rebuild"],["city","The city's annual report","City's annual report"]],"cells":{"":{"city":{"1988":664,"1989":603,"1990":536,"1991":519,"1992":501,"1993":516,"1994":525,"1995":526,"1996":538,"1997":494,"1998":474,"1999":455,"2000":468,"2001":424,"2002":412,"2003":415,"2004":421,"2005":407,"2006":402,"2007":396,"2008":399,"2009":400,"2010":401,"2011":420,"2012":385,"2013":405,"2014":406,"2015":424,"2016":423,"2017":406,"2018":415,"2019":443,"2020":457,"2021":406,"2022":446,"2023":479,"2024":496,"2025":529,"2026":632},"rebuilt":{"2006":402.6371,"2007":396.347,"2008":399.1528,"2009":400.6452,"2010":401.6826,"2011":421.1202,"2012":386.0548,"2013":405.0996,"2014":406.6716,"2015":424.2966,"2016":423.107,"2017":406.7077,"2018":415.1736,"2019":443.882,"2020":458.7828,"2021":407.0485,"2022":448.9542,"2023":481.2847,"2024":497.4614,"2025":531.5164,"2026":636.577}}},"note":"The city's figure is the Mayor's Management Report's average response time to life-threatening medical emergencies by ambulance units, chained from report to report (the five-year windows overlap up to fiscal 2016; the 2016/2017 and 2021/2022 joins are checked against the dispatch-file rebuild): fiscal 1988-1999 from the fiscal 1999 report's chart, 2000-2001 from the fiscal 2001 and 2004 reports (which bridge the indicator's change of name), 2002 from the fiscal 2006 report, 2003-2012 from the city's indicator table, 2013-2016 from the fiscal 2016 report, 2017-2021 from the fiscal 2021 report and 2022-2026 from the fiscal 2026 report. Where a later print revised a year by a second, the later print is used. The fiscal 1999 report calls the figures comparable from fiscal 1988; before 2005 there are no public call records to check them against. The rebuild sums the dispatch file the same way and stays within five seconds of the city's figure in every year from 2006.","provenance":"Mayor's Management Reports, fiscal 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2016, 2021 and 2026 (NYC Mayor's Office of Operations); FY03-FY12 MMR Agency Performance Indicators (NYC Open Data jhjm-vsp8); FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"},"monthly":{"kind":"timeline","format":"mmss","title":"Every month of ambulance response since 2005","subtitle":"Average time from the creation of a call ultimately classed as life-threatening to the first ambulance on scene, monthly, January 2005 to June 2026","points":[{"t":"2005-01","v":426.2,"a":null},{"t":"2005-02","v":407.4,"a":null},{"t":"2005-03","v":406.3,"a":null},{"t":"2005-04","v":396.7,"a":null},{"t":"2005-05","v":395.8,"a":null},{"t":"2005-06","v":409.8,"a":null},{"t":"2005-07","v":402.0,"a":null},{"t":"2005-08","v":397.8,"a":null},{"t":"2005-09","v":402.4,"a":null},{"t":"2005-10","v":405.7,"a":null},{"t":"2005-11","v":404.1,"a":null},{"t":"2005-12","v":413.3,"a":405.7},{"t":"2006-01","v":404.5,"a":403.8},{"t":"2006-02","v":422.1,"a":404.9},{"t":"2006-03","v":398.3,"a":404.2},{"t":"2006-04","v":392.7,"a":403.9},{"t":"2006-05","v":393.9,"a":403.7},{"t":"2006-06","v":397.3,"a":402.6},{"t":"2006-07","v":399.5,"a":402.4},{"t":"2006-08","v":396.8,"a":402.3},{"t":"2006-09","v":399.8,"a":402.1},{"t":"2006-10","v":392.0,"a":400.9},{"t":"2006-11","v":391.3,"a":399.8},{"t":"2006-12","v":389.6,"a":397.8},{"t":"2007-01","v":388.1,"a":396.4},{"t":"2007-02","v":409.0,"a":395.6},{"t":"2007-03","v":407.5,"a":396.4},{"t":"2007-04","v":386.5,"a":395.9},{"t":"2007-05","v":399.5,"a":396.4},{"t":"2007-06","v":396.9,"a":396.3},{"t":"2007-07","v":394.3,"a":395.9},{"t":"2007-08","v":399.2,"a":396.1},{"t":"2007-09","v":399.0,"a":396.1},{"t":"2007-10","v":399.1,"a":396.7},{"t":"2007-11","v":400.5,"a":397.4},{"t":"2007-12","v":399.8,"a":398.3},{"t":"2008-01","v":386.3,"a":398.1},{"t":"2008-02","v":409.4,"a":398.2},{"t":"2008-03","v":398.3,"a":397.4},{"t":"2008-04","v":385.9,"a":397.4},{"t":"2008-05","v":400.5,"a":397.5},{"t":"2008-06","v":416.0,"a":399.2},{"t":"2008-07","v":392.7,"a":399.0},{"t":"2008-08","v":391.2,"a":398.3},{"t":"2008-09","v":405.0,"a":398.8},{"t":"2008-10","v":399.3,"a":398.8},{"t":"2008-11","v":396.8,"a":398.6},{"t":"2008-12","v":406.8,"a":399.1},{"t":"2009-01","v":401.5,"a":400.4},{"t":"2009-02","v":392.4,"a":399.1},{"t":"2009-03","v":396.0,"a":398.9},{"t":"2009-04","v":393.2,"a":399.5},{"t":"2009-05","v":414.4,"a":400.7},{"t":"2009-06","v":416.1,"a":400.6},{"t":"2009-07","v":403.4,"a":401.6},{"t":"2009-08","v":396.6,"a":402.0},{"t":"2009-09","v":399.6,"a":401.6},{"t":"2009-10","v":397.9,"a":401.4},{"t":"2009-11","v":397.2,"a":401.5},{"t":"2009-12","v":408.9,"a":401.6},{"t":"2010-01","v":397.1,"a":401.3},{"t":"2010-02","v":412.6,"a":402.8},{"t":"2010-03","v":401.0,"a":403.2},{"t":"2010-04","v":392.2,"a":403.1},{"t":"2010-05","v":403.8,"a":402.1},{"t":"2010-06","v":410.5,"a":401.7},{"t":"2010-07","v":414.2,"a":402.7},{"t":"2010-08","v":404.8,"a":403.4},{"t":"2010-09","v":420.2,"a":405.1},{"t":"2010-10","v":408.8,"a":406.0},{"t":"2010-11","v":404.2,"a":406.6},{"t":"2010-12","v":608.3,"a":424.3},{"t":"2011-01","v":429.8,"a":427.0},{"t":"2011-02","v":403.1,"a":426.3},{"t":"2011-03","v":384.1,"a":424.9},{"t":"2011-04","v":379.2,"a":423.9},{"t":"2011-05","v":389.5,"a":422.6},{"t":"2011-06","v":394.2,"a":421.1},{"t":"2011-07","v":388.1,"a":418.7},{"t":"2011-08","v":384.2,"a":416.9},{"t":"2011-09","v":392.6,"a":414.6},{"t":"2011-10","v":383.0,"a":412.5},{"t":"2011-11","v":390.1,"a":411.3},{"t":"2011-12","v":387.6,"a":392.0},{"t":"2012-01","v":381.7,"a":388.0},{"t":"2012-02","v":377.8,"a":386.2},{"t":"2012-03","v":387.8,"a":386.5},{"t":"2012-04","v":377.4,"a":386.4},{"t":"2012-05","v":387.6,"a":386.2},{"t":"2012-06","v":392.9,"a":386.1},{"t":"2012-07","v":386.6,"a":385.9},{"t":"2012-08","v":386.7,"a":386.1},{"t":"2012-09","v":389.4,"a":385.8},{"t":"2012-10","v":400.9,"a":387.4},{"t":"2012-11","v":404.4,"a":388.5},{"t":"2012-12","v":406.4,"a":390.2},{"t":"2013-01","v":425.1,"a":394.0},{"t":"2013-02","v":408.8,"a":396.2},{"t":"2013-03","v":402.3,"a":397.4},{"t":"2013-04","v":400.9,"a":399.3},{"t":"2013-05","v":428.2,"a":402.9},{"t":"2013-06","v":418.6,"a":405.1},{"t":"2013-07","v":409.3,"a":407.0},{"t":"2013-08","v":394.0,"a":407.6},{"t":"2013-09","v":396.3,"a":408.2},{"t":"2013-10","v":396.6,"a":407.8},{"t":"2013-11","v":396.6,"a":407.2},{"t":"2013-12","v":410.6,"a":407.6},{"t":"2014-01","v":426.9,"a":407.7},{"t":"2014-02","v":428.3,"a":409.1},{"t":"2014-03","v":409.0,"a":409.7},{"t":"2014-04","v":402.2,"a":409.7},{"t":"2014-05","v":406.9,"a":407.9},{"t":"2014-06","v":404.7,"a":406.7},{"t":"2014-07","v":397.2,"a":405.6},{"t":"2014-08","v":393.0,"a":405.5},{"t":"2014-09","v":410.4,"a":406.6},{"t":"2014-10","v":419.9,"a":408.7},{"t":"2014-11","v":410.9,"a":409.8},{"t":"2014-12","v":418.4,"a":410.5},{"t":"2015-01","v":434.7,"a":411.4},{"t":"2015-02","v":450.0,"a":413.3},{"t":"2015-03","v":441.1,"a":416.1},{"t":"2015-04","v":414.0,"a":417.0},{"t":"2015-05","v":441.0,"a":420.2},{"t":"2015-06","v":451.0,"a":424.3},{"t":"2015-07","v":435.2,"a":427.4},{"t":"2015-08","v":433.6,"a":430.5},{"t":"2015-09","v":430.3,"a":432.0},{"t":"2015-10","v":426.8,"a":432.5},{"t":"2015-11","v":417.1,"a":432.9},{"t":"2015-12","v":423.0,"a":433.2},{"t":"2016-01","v":445.7,"a":434.1},{"t":"2016-02","v":416.0,"a":431.6},{"t":"2016-03","v":421.3,"a":430.0},{"t":"2016-04","v":406.7,"a":429.4},{"t":"2016-05","v":409.9,"a":426.7},{"t":"2016-06","v":408.6,"a":423.1},{"t":"2016-07","v":401.7,"a":420.2},{"t":"2016-08","v":398.7,"a":417.1},{"t":"2016-09","v":413.4,"a":415.7},{"t":"2016-10","v":407.5,"a":414.1},{"t":"2016-11","v":397.7,"a":412.5},{"t":"2016-12","v":414.1,"a":411.8},{"t":"2017-01","v":419.3,"a":409.6},{"t":"2017-02","v":403.6,"a":408.7},{"t":"2017-03","v":412.0,"a":407.9},{"t":"2017-04","v":395.0,"a":406.9},{"t":"2017-05","v":410.4,"a":406.9},{"t":"2017-06","v":405.8,"a":406.7},{"t":"2017-07","v":389.7,"a":405.7},{"t":"2017-08","v":387.0,"a":404.7},{"t":"2017-09","v":404.7,"a":404.0},{"t":"2017-10","v":397.5,"a":403.1},{"t":"2017-11","v":408.0,"a":404.0},{"t":"2017-12","v":417.1,"a":404.2},{"t":"2018-01","v":456.9,"a":407.7},{"t":"2018-02","v":419.6,"a":408.9},{"t":"2018-03","v":412.0,"a":408.9},{"t":"2018-04","v":406.8,"a":409.8},{"t":"2018-05","v":438.4,"a":412.3},{"t":"2018-06","v":439.6,"a":415.2},{"t":"2018-07","v":435.1,"a":419.0},{"t":"2018-08","v":428.9,"a":422.5},{"t":"2018-09","v":445.8,"a":425.9},{"t":"2018-10","v":438.8,"a":429.4},{"t":"2018-11","v":453.7,"a":433.1},{"t":"2018-12","v":444.1,"a":435.4},{"t":"2019-01","v":435.6,"a":433.5},{"t":"2019-02","v":441.1,"a":435.2},{"t":"2019-03","v":436.4,"a":437.1},{"t":"2019-04","v":438.7,"a":439.6},{"t":"2019-05","v":472.2,"a":442.6},{"t":"2019-06","v":455.0,"a":443.9},{"t":"2019-07","v":449.3,"a":445.1},{"t":"2019-08","v":444.4,"a":446.4},{"t":"2019-09","v":453.9,"a":447.1},{"t":"2019-10","v":446.0,"a":447.7},{"t":"2019-11","v":443.5,"a":446.9},{"t":"2019-12","v":467.4,"a":448.9},{"t":"2020-01","v":449.6,"a":450.1},{"t":"2020-02","v":422.4,"a":448.7},{"t":"2020-03","v":609.4,"a":464.8},{"t":"2020-04","v":498.8,"a":470.0},{"t":"2020-05","v":370.4,"a":463.2},{"t":"2020-06","v":392.7,"a":458.8},{"t":"2020-07","v":402.6,"a":455.2},{"t":"2020-08","v":404.8,"a":452.3},{"t":"2020-09","v":397.7,"a":448.1},{"t":"2020-10","v":396.2,"a":444.3},{"t":"2020-11","v":391.0,"a":440.4},{"t":"2020-12","v":410.1,"a":435.6},{"t":"2021-01","v":397.6,"a":431.2},{"t":"2021-02","v":429.7,"a":431.8},{"t":"2021-03","v":405.0,"a":410.8},{"t":"2021-04","v":404.4,"a":400.4},{"t":"2021-05","v":413.8,"a":403.9},{"t":"2021-06","v":428.7,"a":407.0},{"t":"2021-07","v":431.6,"a":409.7},{"t":"2021-08","v":439.4,"a":412.8},{"t":"2021-09","v":456.2,"a":417.7},{"t":"2021-10","v":436.6,"a":421.0},{"t":"2021-11","v":434.4,"a":424.4},{"t":"2021-12","v":477.6,"a":430.2},{"t":"2022-01","v":495.3,"a":438.4},{"t":"2022-02","v":427.6,"a":438.2},{"t":"2022-03","v":433.9,"a":440.5},{"t":"2022-04","v":424.6,"a":442.2},{"t":"2022-05","v":455.6,"a":445.8},{"t":"2022-06","v":465.2,"a":449.0},{"t":"2022-07","v":476.6,"a":453.0},{"t":"2022-08","v":461.9,"a":455.0},{"t":"2022-09","v":475.7,"a":456.7},{"t":"2022-10","v":493.4,"a":461.6},{"t":"2022-11","v":497.8,"a":466.8},{"t":"2022-12","v":522.6,"a":470.9},{"t":"2023-01","v":473.7,"a":469.1},{"t":"2023-02","v":460.5,"a":471.2},{"t":"2023-03","v":463.4,"a":473.4},{"t":"2023-04","v":465.5,"a":476.4},{"t":"2023-05","v":489.7,"a":479.4},{"t":"2023-06","v":487.9,"a":481.3},{"t":"2023-07","v":456.8,"a":479.5},{"t":"2023-08","v":463.2,"a":479.7},{"t":"2023-09","v":500.1,"a":481.8},{"t":"2023-10","v":502.0,"a":482.6},{"t":"2023-11","v":485.6,"a":481.5},{"t":"2023-12","v":537.7,"a":483.2},{"t":"2024-01","v":490.6,"a":484.6},{"t":"2024-02","v":466.2,"a":484.9},{"t":"2024-03","v":470.7,"a":485.4},{"t":"2024-04","v":508.9,"a":488.8},{"t":"2024-05","v":559.9,"a":495.0},{"t":"2024-06","v":516.4,"a":497.5},{"t":"2024-07","v":523.5,"a":503.1},{"t":"2024-08","v":521.8,"a":507.9},{"t":"2024-09","v":544.1,"a":511.5},{"t":"2024-10","v":530.8,"a":513.9},{"t":"2024-11","v":496.0,"a":514.8},{"t":"2024-12","v":541.3,"a":514.9},{"t":"2025-01","v":555.0,"a":520.5},{"t":"2025-02","v":551.2,"a":526.9},{"t":"2025-03","v":499.9,"a":529.4},{"t":"2025-04","v":502.3,"a":528.8},{"t":"2025-05","v":526.2,"a":525.8},{"t":"2025-06","v":581.6,"a":531.5},{"t":"2025-07","v":550.4,"a":533.9},{"t":"2025-08","v":542.7,"a":535.6},{"t":"2025-09","v":620.5,"a":542.0},{"t":"2025-10","v":576.5,"a":545.8},{"t":"2025-11","v":555.4,"a":550.4},{"t":"2025-12","v":704.4,"a":564.6},{"t":"2026-01","v":630.0,"a":570.5},{"t":"2026-02","v":749.9,"a":585.2},{"t":"2026-03","v":646.5,"a":597.2},{"t":"2026-04","v":625.2,"a":607.3},{"t":"2026-05","v":700.2,"a":622.5},{"t":"2026-06","v":741.7,"a":636.6}],"notes":[{"t":"2020-03","v":609.4,"on":"v","title":"The first Covid wave","text":"March 2020, the slowest month before 2025 in records back to 2005"},{"t":"2025-12","v":704.4,"on":"v","title":"The break","text":"December 2025: the first month whose year-on-year rise beat anything from 2017 to mid-2025, Covid aside"},{"t":"2026-06","v":741.7,"on":"v","title":"The latest month","text":"June 2026, the latest month published","above":true}],"value_label":"Response","series_label":"Each month","avg_label":"Average of the latest 12 months","axis":"Dispatch plus travel, minutes:seconds","unit_label":"","note":"Mean of dispatch (creation to first assignment) plus travel (first assignment to arrival) for calls whose final segment is 1 to 3, the Mayor's Management Report's definition. The thick line is the 12-month average, which removes seasonal swings. Annotations are placed by rule.","provenance":"FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"},"components":{"kind":"lines","format":"mmss","title":"Where the minutes are spent","subtitle":"Life-threatening calls, fiscal years 2017 to 2026, average minutes:seconds","axis":"Average time (minutes:seconds)","x_axis":"Fiscal year (July to June)","x":[["2017","2017"],["2018","2018"],["2019","2019"],["2020","2020"],["2021","2021"],["2022","2022"],["2023","2023"],["2024","2024"],["2025","2025"],["2026","2026"]],"series":[["response","Response (dispatch plus travel)","Response"],["travel","First assignment to arrival (travel)","Assignment to arrival"],["calltaking","911 call to job creation","Call-taking"],["dispatch","Creation to first assignment (dispatch)","Creation to assignment"]],"cells":{"":{"response":{"2017":406.7077,"2018":415.1736,"2019":443.882,"2020":458.7828,"2021":407.0485,"2022":448.9542,"2023":481.2847,"2024":497.4614,"2025":531.5164,"2026":636.577},"travel":{"2017":375.9383,"2018":383.2971,"2019":402.0,"2020":407.1854,"2021":380.1494,"2022":412.139,"2023":433.1695,"2024":431.0035,"2025":459.3096,"2026":513.6353},"dispatch":{"2017":30.7694,"2018":31.8765,"2019":41.882,"2020":51.5974,"2021":26.8991,"2022":36.8153,"2023":48.1151,"2024":66.4572,"2025":72.2068,"2026":122.9417},"calltaking":{"2017":124.7134,"2018":117.7439,"2019":145.3316,"2020":153.9838,"2021":160.2229,"2022":160.9925,"2023":155.2148,"2024":149.5261,"2025":144.8324,"2026":149.6591}}},"note":"Response, dispatch and travel from the dispatch file; call-taking (the 911 call to the creation of the EMS job) from the weekly 911 end-to-end file, which times the same calls from the first ring. Travel starts at the first assignment, so a unit sent from farther away counts as travel.","provenance":"FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times; 911 End-to-End Data (NYC Open Data t7p9-n9dy), weekly; EMS life-threatening calls"},"shares":{"kind":"lines","format":"pct","title":"More calls wait for an ambulance","subtitle":"Share of life-threatening calls, fiscal years 2017 to 2026","axis":"Share of life-threatening calls (%)","x_axis":"Fiscal year (July to June)","x":[["2017","2017"],["2018","2018"],["2019","2019"],["2020","2020"],["2021","2021"],["2022","2022"],["2023","2023"],["2024","2024"],["2025","2025"],["2026","2026"]],"series":[["upgraded","Upgraded to life-threatening after the first coding","Upgraded later"],["held","Held: no unit could be assigned at once","Held for a unit"]],"cells":{"":{"upgraded":{"2017":8.58,"2018":8.89,"2019":9.32,"2020":9.76,"2021":9.42,"2022":9.71,"2023":10.65,"2024":10.99,"2025":10.41,"2026":12.08},"held":{"2017":0.8099999999999999,"2018":1.66,"2019":2.35,"2020":2.98,"2021":1.1900000000000002,"2022":2.4,"2023":4.22,"2024":5.84,"2025":6.87,"2026":11.48}}},"note":"Held calls are those the dispatch file flags as held because no unit could be assigned at once; upgraded calls were first coded at a lower priority. A call can be both.","provenance":"FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"},"groups":{"kind":"strip","format":"mmss","title":"Which calls got slower","subtitle":"Average response to life-threatening calls by kind of call, fiscal years 2024 to 2026","axis":"Average response (minutes:seconds)","value_label":"fiscal 2026","x":[["2024","Fiscal 2024"],["2025","Fiscal 2025"],["2026","Fiscal 2026"]],"series":[["ordinary","Life-threatening from the start, not held","Ordinary call"],["held","Life-threatening from the start, held for a unit","Held, urgent from start"],["upgraded","Upgraded to life-threatening later","Upgraded later"],["all","All life-threatening calls","All calls"]],"cells":{"":{"ordinary":{"2024":434.957,"2025":464.0581,"2026":512.574},"held":{"2024":639.1631,"2025":623.4682,"2026":710.1614},"upgraded":{"2024":957.0355,"2025":1060.4961,"2026":1444.5903},"all":{"2024":497.4614,"2025":531.5164,"2026":636.577}}},"note":"Ordinary calls were life-threatening from their first coding and were not held; held calls here were also life-threatening from the start but flagged as held because no unit could be assigned at once (held calls that were also upgraded are with the upgraded); upgraded calls began at a lower priority and are timed from their original creation, as the Mayor's Management Report times them.","provenance":"FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"},"supply":{"kind":"lines","format":"dec1","title":"Fewer ambulance hours, not more calls","subtitle":"Index, fiscal 2022 = 100, fiscal years 2022 to 2026","axis":"Index, fiscal 2022 = 100","x_axis":"Fiscal year (July to June)","x":[["2022","2022"],["2023","2023"],["2024","2024"],["2025","2025"],["2026","2026"]],"series":[["in_service_hours","Ambulance in-service hours per day (MMR)","Ambulance hours"],["amb_incidents","All ambulance incidents (MMR)","Calls"],["amb_per_hour","All ambulance incidents relative to in-service hours (MMR)","Calls per capacity"],["response","Response time","Response time"]],"cells":{"":{"in_service_hours":{"2022":100.0,"2023":97.6943,"2024":97.3231,"2025":96.4121,"2026":91.2046},"amb_incidents":{"2022":100.0,"2023":105.3107,"2024":107.3427,"2025":105.4552,"2026":104.8317},"amb_per_hour":{"2022":100.0,"2023":107.7961,"2024":109.9938,"2025":109.3797,"2026":114.9413},"response":{"2022":100.0,"2023":107.2013,"2024":110.8045,"2025":118.3899,"2026":141.7911}}},"note":"In-service hours are the hours a unit is available or on an assignment, not time spent driving. Hours and incidents (all ambulance incidents) are quoted from the Mayor's Management Report; calls per capacity divides those incidents by the year's in-service hours (the hours a day times the days in the fiscal year, 366 in fiscal 2024); response time is from the dispatch file. Hospital turnaround, also from the report, was flat (40:40 to 40:25) and is left off. The chart shows what moved together; it does not show what caused what.","provenance":"Mayor's Management Report, Fiscal 2026, Fire Department chapter, pp. 61-62; FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"},"boroughs":{"kind":"strip","format":"mmss","title":"Every borough slowed, Queens and the Bronx most","subtitle":"Average ambulance response to life-threatening calls, fiscal years 2024 to 2026","axis":"Average response (minutes:seconds)","value_label":"fiscal 2026","x":[["2024","Fiscal 2024"],["2025","Fiscal 2025"],["2026","Fiscal 2026"]],"series":[["Bronx","Bronx","Bronx"],["Brooklyn","Brooklyn","Brooklyn"],["Manhattan","Manhattan","Manhattan"],["Queens","Queens","Queens"],["Staten Island","Staten Island","Staten Island"],["City","Whole city","Whole city"]],"cells":{"":{"Bronx":{"2024":529.9896,"2025":611.5247,"2026":735.518},"Brooklyn":{"2024":472.3973,"2025":477.099,"2026":542.364},"Manhattan":{"2024":516.1508,"2025":555.1947,"2026":657.9513},"Queens":{"2024":488.0686,"2025":510.4478,"2026":660.0201},"Staten Island":{"2024":440.2571,"2025":457.5741,"2026":528.2286},"City":{"2024":497.4614,"2025":531.5164,"2026":636.577}}},"note":"Borough of the incident. In fiscal 2024 to 2026 every incident in these averages has a borough, so the five boroughs together are the whole city.","provenance":"FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"},"explorer":{"kind":"lines","title":"Cut the response times your own way","subtitle":"By borough, fiscal years 2017 to 2026: pick a measure and a kind of call","x_axis":"Fiscal year (July to June)","x":[["2017","2017"],["2018","2018"],["2019","2019"],["2020","2020"],["2021","2021"],["2022","2022"],["2023","2023"],["2024","2024"],["2025","2025"],["2026","2026"]],"controls":[{"key":"measure","label":"Show","options":[["response_s","Response time"],["dispatch_s","Dispatch: creation to first assignment"],["travel_s","Travel to the scene"],["held_share","Share held for a unit"]]},{"key":"group","label":"Calls","options":[["all","All life-threatening calls"],["from_start","Life-threatening from the start"],["upgraded","Upgraded later"]]}],"formats":{"response_s":{"format":"mmss","axis":"Average response (minutes:seconds)"},"dispatch_s":{"format":"mmss","axis":"Average dispatch (minutes:seconds)"},"travel_s":{"format":"mmss","axis":"Average travel (minutes:seconds)"},"held_share":{"format":"pct","axis":"Share of calls held (%)"}},"series":[["Bronx","Bronx","Bronx"],["Brooklyn","Brooklyn","Brooklyn"],["Manhattan","Manhattan","Manhattan"],["Queens","Queens","Queens"],["Staten Island","Staten Island","Staten Island"],["City","Whole city","Whole city"]],"cells":{"response_s|all":{"Bronx":{"2017":401.5407,"2018":421.9317,"2019":464.3722,"2020":506.0153,"2021":417.2233,"2022":468.2514,"2023":500.9373,"2024":529.9896,"2025":611.5247,"2026":735.518},"Brooklyn":{"2017":414.346,"2018":416.1401,"2019":439.7201,"2020":440.9852,"2021":401.0582,"2022":447.485,"2023":471.4027,"2024":472.3973,"2025":477.099,"2026":542.364},"Manhattan":{"2017":402.8668,"2018":413.3151,"2019":445.9968,"2020":432.1664,"2021":391.365,"2022":423.1632,"2023":475.2164,"2024":516.1508,"2025":555.1947,"2026":657.9513},"Queens":{"2017":413.6218,"2018":414.0473,"2019":434.2279,"2020":469.6935,"2021":420.0545,"2022":458.9933,"2023":489.6447,"2024":488.0686,"2025":510.4478,"2026":660.0201},"Staten Island":{"2017":375.8054,"2018":389.014,"2019":390.9834,"2020":411.1778,"2021":413.6,"2022":455.3309,"2023":445.4856,"2024":440.2571,"2025":457.5741,"2026":528.2286},"City":{"2017":406.7103,"2018":415.1753,"2019":443.8837,"2020":458.7844,"2021":407.0485,"2022":448.9542,"2023":481.2855,"2024":497.4614,"2025":531.5164,"2026":636.577}},"response_s|from_start":{"Bronx":{"2017":388.826,"2018":401.6447,"2019":422.181,"2020":438.8742,"2021":411.5933,"2022":449.796,"2023":471.0727,"2024":456.3163,"2025":514.9845,"2026":555.2056},"Brooklyn":{"2017":401.5014,"2018":401.2771,"2019":414.1988,"2020":412.1766,"2021":392.3207,"2022":428.9921,"2023":441.6086,"2024":428.6601,"2025":436.6182,"2026":483.9778},"Manhattan":{"2017":381.4457,"2018":384.8521,"2019":403.5163,"2020":393.8095,"2021":376.3075,"2022":398.1412,"2023":428.8021,"2024":428.0867,"2025":472.4425,"2026":519.5351},"Queens":{"2017":408.4734,"2018":408.0727,"2019":423.4962,"2020":448.0666,"2021":415.5887,"2022":448.9713,"2023":471.9614,"2024":459.3352,"2025":473.0375,"2026":569.4633},"Staten Island":{"2017":371.2203,"2018":383.4147,"2019":379.5746,"2020":402.8107,"2021":406.5839,"2022":435.815,"2023":430.98,"2024":426.0603,"2025":441.2809,"2026":485.8894},"City":{"2017":393.6563,"2018":397.8021,"2019":413.5731,"2020":420.882,"2021":398.502,"2022":430.5169,"2023":450.528,"2024":440.6977,"2025":470.036,"2026":525.6451}},"response_s|upgraded":{"Bronx":{"2017":544.1958,"2018":634.5582,"2019":862.8334,"2020":1081.8065,"2021":470.9264,"2022":641.1737,"2023":754.7662,"2024":1088.0134,"2025":1371.5026,"2026":1909.1419},"Brooklyn":{"2017":553.6328,"2018":574.0999,"2019":691.445,"2020":716.6658,"2021":486.1218,"2022":620.0854,"2023":722.153,"2024":845.2693,"2025":849.6763,"2026":1019.2498},"Manhattan":{"2017":624.2969,"2018":690.3143,"2019":851.695,"2020":785.8176,"2021":532.5739,"2022":652.0075,"2023":858.6789,"2024":1188.618,"2025":1236.1929,"2026":1626.9665},"Queens":{"2017":463.8849,"2018":471.6635,"2019":538.8941,"2020":670.5287,"2021":461.5882,"2022":548.4005,"2023":632.0447,"2024":727.8086,"2025":836.6428,"2026":1303.2174},"Staten Island":{"2017":427.8854,"2018":451.2433,"2019":509.5657,"2020":500.4978,"2021":488.2544,"2022":654.2112,"2023":577.3971,"2024":582.6786,"2025":632.962,"2026":914.3295},"City":{"2017":544.9584,"2018":592.0393,"2019":737.3742,"2020":808.2398,"2021":488.6903,"2022":619.4749,"2023":738.1592,"2024":957.0355,"2025":1060.4961,"2026":1444.5903}},"dispatch_s|all":{"Bronx":{"2017":34.5255,"2018":36.9076,"2019":53.1095,"2020":81.1408,"2021":30.731,"2022":41.8048,"2023":52.4556,"2024":85.827,"2025":113.0855,"2026":194.3519},"Brooklyn":{"2017":30.3575,"2018":29.7327,"2019":33.7407,"2020":39.8736,"2021":24.5881,"2022":35.0808,"2023":44.5298,"2024":50.3487,"2025":49.0967,"2026":67.5205},"Manhattan":{"2017":35.5932,"2018":39.6289,"2019":53.8008,"2020":48.6361,"2021":27.4282,"2022":38.617,"2023":61.5585,"2024":95.763,"2025":92.8572,"2026":155.2202},"Queens":{"2017":23.4552,"2018":22.126,"2019":28.2743,"2020":43.0057,"2021":26.5546,"2022":32.9592,"2023":37.2977,"2024":42.373,"2025":46.7124,"2026":101.8123},"Staten Island":{"2017":19.6239,"2018":18.1051,"2019":22.9451,"2020":21.5356,"2021":20.1734,"2022":30.2041,"2023":25.4719,"2024":25.1356,"2025":25.8421,"2026":47.9314},"City":{"2017":30.7695,"2018":31.8767,"2019":41.8823,"2020":51.5975,"2021":26.8991,"2022":36.8153,"2023":48.1152,"2024":66.4572,"2025":72.2068,"2026":122.9417}},"dispatch_s|from_start":{"Bronx":{"2017":31.3413,"2018":30.1632,"2019":33.7057,"2020":38.0705,"2021":28.3202,"2022":32.4487,"2023":37.9808,"2024":39.4058,"2025":46.18,"2026":55.0572},"Brooklyn":{"2017":28.3975,"2018":26.7427,"2019":27.9261,"2020":27.0311,"2021":22.7381,"2022":28.4628,"2023":33.2323,"2024":33.2974,"2025":32.9109,"2026":36.1991},"Manhattan":{"2017":27.6216,"2018":27.3149,"2019":31.368,"2020":29.7557,"2021":24.0221,"2022":28.5917,"2023":35.2557,"2024":37.6822,"2025":37.4398,"2026":50.28},"Queens":{"2017":22.9619,"2018":21.6461,"2019":26.8289,"2020":30.488,"2021":25.1552,"2022":28.9026,"2023":31.6913,"2024":33.869,"2025":33.8835,"2026":45.1904},"Staten Island":{"2017":19.2514,"2018":17.853,"2019":20.8947,"2020":19.1471,"2021":18.088,"2022":21.2833,"2023":20.3619,"2024":20.6365,"2025":20.7731,"2026":24.6759},"City":{"2017":27.4195,"2018":26.2997,"2019":29.6313,"2020":30.6312,"2021":24.6239,"2022":29.1386,"2023":33.8605,"2024":35.2162,"2025":36.5204,"2026":44.9802}},"dispatch_s|upgraded":{"Bronx":{"2017":70.2509,"2018":107.595,"2019":236.3623,"2020":450.5055,"2021":53.7268,"2022":129.4692,"2023":175.4815,"2024":437.4355,"2025":639.7744,"2026":1100.9989},"Brooklyn":{"2017":51.6124,"2018":61.5089,"2019":91.0923,"2020":162.7683,"2021":42.5988,"2022":96.8485,"2023":139.6113,"2024":195.7161,"2025":198.0673,"2026":323.3464},"Manhattan":{"2017":117.9947,"2018":159.467,"2019":268.039,"2020":222.7136,"2021":59.3704,"2022":130.3055,"2023":278.865,"2024":539.2744,"2025":548.9071,"2026":889.8784},"Queens":{"2017":28.2712,"2018":26.7537,"2019":42.3711,"2020":159.2495,"2021":39.5697,"2022":69.1478,"2023":82.4455,"2024":113.3268,"2025":158.5723,"2026":503.9803},"Staten Island":{"2017":23.8545,"2018":20.9067,"2019":44.2575,"2020":47.0331,"2021":42.3633,"2022":121.1125,"2023":71.9404,"2024":70.2709,"2025":80.4072,"2026":260.0036},"City":{"2017":66.248,"2018":88.652,"2019":160.506,"2020":244.9042,"2021":48.6339,"2022":107.8142,"2023":167.1647,"2024":319.3923,"2025":379.2542,"2026":690.8033}},"travel_s|all":{"Bronx":{"2017":367.0152,"2018":385.0242,"2019":411.2627,"2020":424.8744,"2021":386.4923,"2022":426.4466,"2023":448.4817,"2024":444.1592,"2025":498.4393,"2026":541.166},"Brooklyn":{"2017":383.9885,"2018":386.4075,"2019":405.9794,"2020":401.1116,"2021":376.4701,"2022":412.4042,"2023":426.8729,"2024":422.0486,"2025":428.0023,"2026":474.8435},"Manhattan":{"2017":367.2736,"2018":373.6862,"2019":392.196,"2020":383.5303,"2021":363.9368,"2022":384.5463,"2023":413.658,"2024":420.3878,"2025":462.3375,"2026":502.7312},"Queens":{"2017":390.1666,"2018":391.9213,"2019":405.9536,"2020":426.6878,"2021":393.4998,"2022":426.0342,"2023":452.347,"2024":445.6957,"2025":463.7354,"2026":558.2078},"Staten Island":{"2017":356.1814,"2018":370.9089,"2019":368.0382,"2020":389.6422,"2021":393.4266,"2022":425.1268,"2023":420.0138,"2024":415.1215,"2025":431.7319,"2026":480.2972},"City":{"2017":375.9407,"2018":383.2987,"2019":402.0014,"2020":407.1869,"2021":380.1494,"2022":412.139,"2023":433.1703,"2024":431.0035,"2025":459.3096,"2026":513.6353}},"travel_s|from_start":{"Bronx":{"2017":357.4846,"2018":371.4815,"2019":388.4753,"2020":400.8038,"2021":383.2731,"2022":417.3474,"2023":433.0919,"2024":416.9068,"2025":468.8045,"2026":500.1484},"Brooklyn":{"2017":373.1039,"2018":374.5343,"2019":386.2727,"2020":385.1455,"2021":369.5827,"2022":400.5292,"2023":408.3763,"2024":395.3628,"2025":403.7073,"2026":447.7786},"Manhattan":{"2017":353.824,"2018":357.5372,"2019":372.1483,"2020":364.0538,"2021":352.2854,"2022":369.5495,"2023":393.5464,"2024":390.4045,"2025":435.0027,"2026":469.2551},"Queens":{"2017":385.5115,"2018":386.4265,"2019":396.6673,"2020":417.5786,"2021":390.4335,"2022":420.0687,"2023":440.2701,"2024":425.4662,"2025":439.154,"2026":524.2729},"Staten Island":{"2017":351.9688,"2018":365.5617,"2019":358.6799,"2020":383.6636,"2021":388.4959,"2022":414.5317,"2023":410.618,"2024":405.4238,"2025":420.5077,"2026":461.2135},"City":{"2017":366.2368,"2018":371.5024,"2019":383.9418,"2020":390.2508,"2021":373.8781,"2022":401.3783,"2023":416.6675,"2024":405.4807,"2025":433.5156,"2026":480.6649}},"travel_s|upgraded":{"Bronx":{"2017":473.945,"2018":526.9632,"2019":626.4711,"2020":631.301,"2021":417.1996,"2022":511.7045,"2023":579.2848,"2024":650.5779,"2025":731.7281,"2026":808.1431},"Brooklyn":{"2017":502.0204,"2018":512.591,"2019":600.3526,"2020":553.8975,"2021":443.523,"2022":523.2369,"2023":582.5417,"2024":649.5532,"2025":651.609,"2026":695.9034},"Manhattan":{"2017":506.3022,"2018":530.8474,"2019":583.656,"2020":563.1041,"2021":473.2035,"2022":521.7021,"2023":579.8139,"2024":649.3436,"2025":687.2857,"2026":737.0881},"Queens":{"2017":435.6137,"2018":444.9098,"2019":496.523,"2020":511.2792,"2021":422.0185,"2022":479.2526,"2023":549.5992,"2024":614.4818,"2025":678.0705,"2026":799.2371},"Staten Island":{"2017":404.0308,"2018":430.3366,"2019":465.3081,"2020":453.4648,"2021":445.891,"2022":533.0987,"2023":505.4567,"2024":512.4077,"2025":552.5548,"2026":654.3259},"City":{"2017":478.7105,"2018":503.3873,"2019":576.8682,"2020":563.3356,"2021":440.0565,"2022":511.6607,"2023":570.9944,"2024":637.6432,"2025":681.2418,"2026":753.787}},"held_share|all":{"Bronx":{"2017":0.8099999999999999,"2018":2.02,"2019":3.2,"2020":4.22,"2021":1.24,"2022":2.78,"2023":5.029999999999999,"2024":7.739999999999999,"2025":12.41,"2026":15.25},"Brooklyn":{"2017":0.5599999999999999,"2018":0.9199999999999999,"2019":1.4200000000000002,"2020":2.1,"2021":0.74,"2022":1.8599999999999999,"2023":2.97,"2024":4.08,"2025":3.29,"2026":7.180000000000001},"Manhattan":{"2017":1.6199999999999999,"2018":2.8899999999999997,"2019":3.85,"2020":3.7199999999999998,"2021":1.63,"2022":2.93,"2023":5.86,"2024":8.6,"2025":9.78,"2026":15.110000000000001},"Queens":{"2017":0.31,"2018":0.96,"2019":0.9299999999999999,"2020":2.23,"2021":1.22,"2022":2.07,"2023":3.5900000000000003,"2024":3.81,"2025":3.62,"2026":10.35},"Staten Island":{"2017":0.21,"2018":0.63,"2019":0.9900000000000001,"2020":1.1900000000000002,"2021":1.21,"2022":2.42,"2023":2.15,"2024":1.83,"2025":1.9300000000000002,"2026":6.03},"City":{"2017":0.8099999999999999,"2018":1.66,"2019":2.35,"2020":2.98,"2021":1.1900000000000002,"2022":2.4,"2023":4.22,"2024":5.84,"2025":6.87,"2026":11.48}},"held_share|from_start":{"Bronx":{"2017":0.31,"2018":1.2,"2019":1.11,"2020":1.7999999999999998,"2021":1.09,"2022":2.07,"2023":3.38,"2024":3.4799999999999995,"2025":7.64,"2026":7.95},"Brooklyn":{"2017":0.24,"2018":0.52,"2019":0.52,"2020":1.11,"2021":0.63,"2022":1.23,"2023":1.81,"2024":2.08,"2025":1.3599999999999999,"2026":4.62},"Manhattan":{"2017":0.35000000000000003,"2018":1.27,"2019":1.41,"2020":1.71,"2021":1.18,"2022":1.73,"2023":3.1300000000000003,"2024":3.63,"2025":5.19,"2026":8.82},"Queens":{"2017":0.21,"2018":0.86,"2019":0.76,"2020":1.7000000000000002,"2021":1.1400000000000001,"2022":1.8499999999999999,"2023":3.02,"2024":2.65,"2025":1.96,"2026":6.2},"Staten Island":{"2017":0.12,"2018":0.58,"2019":0.54,"2020":0.6799999999999999,"2021":0.91,"2022":1.4200000000000002,"2023":1.3,"2024":1.01,"2025":1.05,"2026":3.81},"City":{"2017":0.27,"2018":0.9299999999999999,"2019":0.9299999999999999,"2020":1.52,"2021":0.9900000000000001,"2022":1.67,"2023":2.7,"2024":2.83,"2025":3.7600000000000002,"2026":6.64}},"held_share|upgraded":{"Bronx":{"2017":6.4,"2018":10.74,"2019":22.97,"2020":24.89,"2021":2.7,"2022":9.48,"2023":19.1,"2024":39.97,"2025":49.82,"2026":62.53999999999999},"Brooklyn":{"2017":4.02,"2018":5.21,"2019":10.35,"2020":11.59,"2021":1.8499999999999999,"2022":7.79,"2023":12.790000000000001,"2024":21.19,"2025":21.0,"2026":28.22},"Manhattan":{"2017":14.829999999999998,"2018":18.790000000000003,"2019":27.24,"2020":22.34,"2021":5.87,"2022":14.01,"2023":28.499999999999996,"2024":46.550000000000004,"2025":47.61,"2026":59.11},"Queens":{"2017":1.31,"2018":1.9800000000000002,"2019":2.63,"2020":7.21,"2021":1.91,"2022":4.08,"2023":8.17,"2024":13.52,"2025":18.099999999999998,"2026":39.800000000000004},"Staten Island":{"2017":1.3,"2018":1.26,"2019":5.7700000000000005,"2020":6.72,"2021":4.45,"2022":12.659999999999998,"2023":9.92,"2024":10.11,"2025":11.4,"2026":26.369999999999997},"City":{"2017":6.569999999999999,"2018":9.180000000000001,"2019":16.11,"2020":16.49,"2021":3.15,"2022":9.16,"2023":17.01,"2024":30.23,"2025":33.650000000000006,"2026":46.75}}},"note":"Means from the dispatch file's monthly sums, fiscal years ending in June. Upgraded calls are about one in eight, so their borough lines are noisier.","provenance":"FDNY EMS Incident Dispatch Data (NYC Open Data 76xm-jjuj), monthly sums; life-threatening = final segment 1-3, valid times"}}}