FDNY response times slowed during extreme cold: ‘Inundated’

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — FDNY was completely “inundated” during the extreme cold, at one point keeping 300 calls for service on hold, Chief of Department John Esposito said Tuesday morning. The FDNY provides about one third of the city’s ambulances and fields, around 4,400 EMS calls per day, Esposito said. During January’s snowstorm, that [...]