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During a press briefing on Thursday, Minneapolis EMS Chief Marty Scheerer answered a question about the speed that EMS services were able to respond to the Catholic school shooting.

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00:00A response, like how many EMS personnel, how many ambulances, how many did you send out?
00:07So the question is how many people responded to the scene.
00:11So initially it came in as the active shooter, so we activate a plan one,
00:15which normally gets us about six ambulances and a supervisor and a doctor.
00:20But when we heard the 20 patients potential, then we go to a plan three,
00:24which gets us about 20 ambulances, all of our medical direction team,
00:29and everyone, and we have some mutual aid from other sources also back up our system.
00:34So we had a really, really great response.
00:37Our team was actually at Station 27, which is like three or four blocks away.
00:42And so we were ready to go.
00:44We waited for the police to give us the okay to come in, which took just a minute or two,
00:49and then we were on scene right away, and we started transporting right away.
00:52And I think we transferred the first patient within less than 10 minutes of the call,
00:57the time the call came in.
00:58And then I think we were done transporting people after 25 minutes from the time they're calling in.
01:04What's 20 ambulances on the people?
01:06I think we ended up using a dozen or so of ambulances and transported 17, I believe is the number,
01:13to three different area hospitals.
01:19Other questions?

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