The Los Angeles Fire Department has bought 14 life-support ambulances and a paramedic ambulance that will be used to help achieve the department's goal of getting crews to the scene of fires or medical emergencies within five minutes 90% of the time, Fire Chief William Bamattre said Wednesday at a City Hall news conference.
The department achieved five-minute response in 26% of the 305,000 incidents it responded to last year, Bamattre said. Most of the time, firefighters respond within eight minutes, he said.
