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Impact: Currently, there are five firefighters scheduled to be n -duty 24 hours -a-day. The personnel are split into two crews; a crew of two on the medical response vehicle and a crew of three on the fire engine. When a medical call is received, it is the nature and severity of the call that determines which . crew r if both crews) will respond. If there is a report of a medical call, only the medical crew will respond. If there is a second medical call while the first medical call is being handled (this happens about % of the time ) then the engine crew will respond to the second medical call. If the medical. call sounds critical (cardiac arrest, non-breather, unconscious, vehicle accident, etc.) then both crews nay respond because of the labor-intensive mature of pro *ding medical care to critical patients. When a patient is critical, one of the on.-duty firefighters may ride down to the hospital with Affina. If there is a report of a fire, both crews respond. The hours of 1010 Opm to 10 :00am were chosen for the staffing reduction because this tim e from represents the least busy hours of the d. ay for -Gres and medical emerge- rr i s. Roughly one-third of emerge ey calls occur during the hours when staffing will be reduced. The exposure from reduced staffing urin these hours is reduced because evening hours represents the time when the highest number of firefighters are available for callbacks from. home.