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Suburb of a city. For France, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_France#Operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medi
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Suburb of a city. For France, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_France#Operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_...:
“Current response time targets are for the responder to arrive at the scene within 10 minutes for 80% of responses, and within 15 minutes for 95% of responses”
Reading https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2643992 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac..., the USA is a bit worse (table 1 shows the 90th percentile to be at 14 minutes in the suburbs). I would guesstimate that’s at least partly because of lower population density.
⇒ 20 minutes could just be an outlier. It also could be that some neighborhoods get disproportionately many high end outliers or that those numbers changed since 2015 (that’s were the data in the 2017 paper is from), though.