Vancouver’s fire chief says public won’t notice response changes to some medical calls

Vancouver’s fire chief says changes were needed to how crews respond to certain medical calls, especially at some of the city’s busiest halls. In the first quarter of the year, there were almost 6,000 apparatus runs from Firehall 2 in the Downtown Eastside. These calls are when a crew and truck respond to an emergency. Firefighters say more than half of these calls were medical calls. Across the city, firefighters have stopped responding to Code Orange calls, where a patient has serious injuries, and fire halls in the Downtown Eastside, Strathcona and Yaletown have stopped responding to some C…