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Toronto Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Overview of Toronto EMS

Toronto EMS is the sole provider of emergency medical response for the City of Toronto: a service district encompassing 650 square kilometres with a daytime population of 3.5 million people.

This makes Toronto EMS the largest municipal paramedic ambulance service in Canada, and one of the most comprehensive pre-hospital emergency care systems in the world.

Toronto EMS Paramedics are college-trained professionals who are highly skilled in all aspects of pre-hospital emergency medicine. They treat a wide variety of injuries and medical conditions, while providing supportive patient care and safe transportation to an appropriate medical facility. An advanced computer-aided dispatch system linked to a 9-1-1 system means the time from receiving a call to the arrival of a paramedic crew is only a matter of minutes. In many instances, the initial emergency care rendered by a paramedic is the deciding factor between life and death, temporary or permanent disability, a brief confinement or prolonged hospitalization for a patient. In critical situations, paramedics are required to demonstrate leadership, well-developed human relations skills, rapid decision-making, and a high degree of empathy for both the patients and their families.

Paramedics are the most visible EMS staff on the streets of Toronto, however, the successful operation of the Toronto EMS system requires teamwork from every aspect of the service. There are four main Emergency Medical Services (EMS) divisions, each administered by four Deputy Chief/Directors and supervised by one Chief/General Manager.

Communications

The Toronto EMS Communications Centre processes about 425,700 calls per year and responds to approximately 265,000 requests for service resulting in transport of about 179,600 patients per year.

The Toronto EMS communications systems makes use of the Toronto Public Safety System, which is also used by The Toronto Police Service and The Toronto Fire Service.

Additional information on the Toronto EMS Communications and Dispatch may be found on the Toronto EMS Website in the Communication Section, or on the Toronto Public Safety wiki page

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(updated at five minute intervals)

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Toronto Businesses and Attractions

• 10 Dundas Street East
• Air Canada Center
• Eaton Centre

GTA Monitoring locations suggested by RadioReference Members

Greater Toronto Map

Islington-Bloor area

• using HomePatrol-1 with an 800 MHz RadioShack antenna

• all Toronto Public Safety,Go Transit West Simulcast,Peel Region,York Region,Toronto TTC CIS,Toronto Subway Voice Ch1,all three sites from Halton Region,Hamilton Public Safety

Highway 400 and King Road (King City)

• VHF and 800 MHz systems as far north as Barrie,south to Hamilton,and everything in between

Lakefront Promenade (Cawthra and Lakeshore Road East,drive to the last parking lot)

• Good reception of Toronto, York Region, Peel, all Halton zones, Hamilton, Fleetnet, etc.

Steeles and Beare Road (use church parking lot on north side of Steeles)

• all of the above(see Lakefront Promenade details) plus Durham Region.

Ninth Line between Bloomington Road and Musselman Lake

• decent high ground.

Cecil Crescent (Kingston Road and Midland)

• good view to the south (Niagara) and east (Cobourg)

Harmony Road @ Conlin in North Oshawa

• mobile with a 996XT:

• Toronto - E, S, N (full signal strength on N and E)
• York (full signal strength)
• Peel (full signal strength)
• Halton - Oakville
• Hamilton
• Durham
• Fleenet Zone 2 - Cobourg, Peterborough
• Fleetnet Zone 1 - Whitby, Toronto, King City, Sunderland, Pontypool, Edgar, Skylon
• Metrolinx (full signal strength)
• Port Hope Fire/Works (full signal strength)
• Niagara County Sheriff (full signal strength)
• NYSP Channel 4
• Rochester PD/FD - P25 (Broken up - but clear in summer months)
• TTC 1-5 (full signal strength)

• heard very weakly but not strong enough to trunk
• Halton-Milton Site, Peterborough EDACS, Cobourg TRS

• Another good location in Oshawa is at Lakeside Park at the top of the hill in the parking lot

lakefront west ball diamonds in south Oshawa

• heard Rochester and other WNY freq's.plus Toronto,Peel

Bathurst and Davenport Road, Toronto at the TTC Hillcrest complex

• using 396XT and Icom 80AD
• TPS and TFS,TTC,Hamilton Public safety and HSR,Halton Public safety,Peel Region,Fleetnet Zone 1 (Toronto and Britannia towers),GO Transit,VE3TWR

Near Guelph Line and Upper middle, Burlington

• using 996XT, 369XT, Pro-164 and Icom 80AD
• Halton Public safety and Transit all Towers (full signal)
• Hamilton Public safety and HSR (full signal)
• GO Transit (Waterdown tower full signal)
• Fleetnet Zone 1 (Charlton(full signal), Britannia(sometimes) towers
• Peel Region Public safety and Transit (sometimes)
• CYHM ATC and ATIS
• CYYZ ATC
• TTC Wheel-Trans, CIS, Operations/Security and Main(Transit Control).
• VE3RSB (full signal)
• VE3TWR (full signal with 2 meter mag mount or telescoping for VE3TWR)

Burlington/Hamilton (Waterdown) area (off Dundas on Kerns Road)and King Road north of the QEW

• Toronto, Peel, to the east
• Brantford,Cayuga,Simcoe to the south

on Highway 403 by the Weather Network

• Simcoe Norfolk tower using a BCD396T

P25 Trunk System tested May to July 2010

• System 3C2