{"id":46178,"date":"2020-03-17T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46178"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:31:36","slug":"copcn-lehigh-acres-fire-dept-response-times-are-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/03\/copcn-lehigh-acres-fire-dept-response-times-are-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"COPCN Lehigh Acres Fire Dept \u2026.. response times are too slow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lee County Commissioners approved a ONE YEAR license (Expires\nMarch 30, 2021) to run the ambulances in Lehigh Acres.  But this time Lehigh Acres Fire must improve. Compliance\nform<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee County Ordinance 08-16 outlines two core standards for\nEMS response within Section Seven: Staff\nReport<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Out-of-chute time of one minute\nduring the day and two minutes at night <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Response time of 8:59 or less 90 percent of the time to calls classified as Delta\/Echo under the Medical Priority Dispatch System<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Number one is a Firefighter issue, and Number Two is a Management issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohammad Yasin asked Lee County Commissioners to look at the\ncurrent at lack of management in the Lehigh Acres Fire Dept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

County Public Safety Director Ben Abes has recommended that Lehigh Fire again receive county approval for only a single year\u00a0because its response times do not meet the county requirement for full, two-year certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a memorandum to county leaders, Abes said Lehigh Fire\n“continues to lack the (financial) capacity to complete the expansion to\nimprove these response metrics.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abes said the county government will continue “to evaluate options for service improvements in the short-term to remedy the compliance issues.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehigh Acres Fire Chief Robert DiLallo said the permanent solution needed to provide service to Lehigh’s sprawling but the growing population\u00a0builds a new station on Sunshine Boulevard, where the district has already bought land for a new station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last attempt to fund a new fire station last June\nstumbled when less than 7 percent of the voters turned out for a special\nelection on a proposal to have owners of vacant lots pick up more of the cost\nfor fire protection. The measure failed by less than 400 votes, Fire dept again\nwill place a ballot question on the November ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee County Commissioners approved a ONE YEAR license (Expires March 30, 2021) to run the ambulances in Lehigh Acres.  But this time Lehigh Acres Fire must improve. Compliance form Lee… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}