New alert system at Merced Fire Station helping with response times

The caller alert strategy was paid for with voter-approved Measure C backing of a half-cent income taxation successful Merced.

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Residents volition payment from a caller alert strategy astatine the Merced Fire Station.

Officials accidental it's helping dispatchers and firefighters amended effect times to exigency calls.

Large monitors are mounted connected the walls passim the station.

Then erstwhile a 911 telephone comes in, some dispatchers and EMS teams tin spot important accusation successful existent time, specified arsenic the benignant of emergency, determination details and however galore minutes it's been since the telephone archetypal came in.

Casey Wilson, Merced's interim occurrence chief, says the erstwhile alert strategy was astir 15 years aged and was owed for an upgrade.

In times of emergency, a accelerated effect is captious due to the fact that each 2nd tin mean beingness oregon death.

"In 4 to six minutes of your encephalon being deprived of oxygen, determination tin beryllium detrimental impacts to the body," Wilson said. "Specifically, encephalon damage. It's important that we process the calls rapidly and that we get to exigency scenes rapidly to marque definite that we tin trim those effects successful the lawsuit that somebody's having a bosom onslaught oregon they're not breathing.

The caller alert strategy was paid for with voter-approved Measure C backing of a half-cent income taxation successful Merced.