{"id":378894,"date":"2026-10-21T21:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378894\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:40:28","slug":"ems-union-official-talks-ambulance-response-times-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378894\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS union official talks ambulance response times increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an emergency, New Yorkers count on EMS responders to get to them quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But a recent city comptroller report found ambulances taking nearly four more minutes to respond to emergencies than they did just a decade ago, an approximately 40% increase in response times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The union representing EMS workers says the root of the problem goes back to funding and staffing.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Almojera, an FDNY EMS lieutenant and vice president of the Uniformed EMS Officers Union, joined &#8220;Mornings On 1&#8221; to talk about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an emergency, New Yorkers count on EMS responders to get to them quickly.\u00a0 But a recent city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2274,2275,9,24,12,63,380,134,136,135,200],"class_list":["post-378894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}