We have more dispatch data!

Recently I've gotten my hands on more dispatch data, this time directly from the county sheriffs department. This dispatch data, as opposed to the state data I looked at originally, has the address information for the ambulance run.

When you put this together with map data, you can see exactly which address is within which township or city within the county. Here's a look at Q1 of 2025. At some point I'll be going through all of 2025 and 2026. And remember, the national standard to arrive on-scene is 8 minutes, 90% of the time.

So if you live inside the city limits of Lafayette, you have the best response times out of anyone in the county, at 12.7 minutes for the 90th percentile. West Lafayette comes in second at 16 minutes for their 90th percentile. It just keeps getting worse from there.

Looking at this data, you really can't blame the Wabash Township Trustee deciding to make an EMS for unincorporated Wabash Township this past year. It's the fastest growing area of the county, and look at those response times. More than double the national standard.

I was really heartened also to see that the current Wea Township Trustee announced this week that they've purchased an ambulance and plan to provide basic live support services to their township at some point in the future.

I made the comment in the first public comment that I gave last month and I'll say it again- Why shouldn't every one of these areas not look into making their own EMS? If the County Commissioners and TEAS are unwilling to provide appropriate response times, someone has to step up and do it. The people of this county should be able to know that when they call 911 and need an ambulance, that one will show up in an appropriate amount of time.