Brewer asks about military recruitment, 911 app, and NSF grant

Thank you very much.

The new head of OLR is a rock star, so she'll figure all this out.

That's what I know.

I have two questions.

Quickly, military.

A lot of the EMTs I know come from the military, so I'm wondering what the percentage is and then how you do recruitment there.

That's question number one.

Second is, I think at one point there was some kind of an app to tell us this is what you call 911 for.

I wish New Yorkers understood this, and this is what you call, you know, other means.

Don't use 911.

In this case, maybe use telehealth, et cetera.

Is that app still in play?

And then just finally, I think the fire department got at one point some kind of a National Science Foundation grant to help with response times at $2 million.

I was just wondering what happened to that initiative.

So concerning the app, I'm not familiar with that.

We'll look in to see if that, you know, what the status of that is.

We will get the percentage of veterans, military veterans that are in EMS.

And do you recruit from them, from the military?

We would certainly hire, and I guess we could look at some recruitment with them as well.

And the $2 million grant?

And I'll look into this grant from, is it National Institute of Health?

National Institute of Health, NSF, yes.

And let's talk about response time.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.