Editing Worcester, Massachusetts (section)

===Public safety===
For public safety needs, the City of Worcester is protected by both the [[Worcester Fire Department]] and the Worcester Police Department.

UMass Memorial Medical Center provides emergency medical services (EMS) under contract with the city. Originally operated by Worcester City Hospital and later by the University of Massachusetts Medical School,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://umassmemorialems.com/index.php/ems-personal/item/17-stephen-haynes-emtp-chief-of-ems|title=Personnel—EMTP Chief of EMS|publisher=UMassMemorial Emergency Medical Services|quote=…one of the first EMTs to staff the Worcester City Hospital ambulance service when it began providing care to the community in 1977.|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113170433/https://www.umassmemorialems.com/index.php/ems-personal/item/17-stephen-haynes-emtp-chief-of-ems|url-status=live}}</ref> "Worcester EMS" operates exclusively at the advanced life support (ALS) level, with two paramedics staffing each ambulance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://umassmemorialems.com/index.php/emergency-response1|title=Emergency Response|publisher=UMassMemorial Emergency Medical Services|access-date=25 March 2018|quote=…one of the few remaining EMS services in Massachusetts that maintain a two-paramedic crew configuration on our advanced life support ambulances.|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113170513/https://www.umassmemorialems.com/index.php/emergency-response1|url-status=live}}</ref> UMass Memorial EMS maintains two community EMS stations and operates a fleet of 18 ambulances (including spares), as well as a special-operations trailer, several other support vehicles, and a bike team; the agency responds to an average of 100 emergencies each day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://umassmemorialems.com/index.php/faq-s2|publisher=UMassMemorial Emergency Medical Services|title=FAQ's|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113170512/https://www.umassmemorialems.com/index.php/faq-s2|url-status=live}}</ref> UMass Memorial EMS operates the EMS Communications Center, which is a secondary PSAP and provides emergency medical dispatch (EMD) services to Worcester and other communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://umassmemorialems.com/index.php/what-we-do2/9-1-1-call-taking2|title=9-1-1 Call Taking|publisher=UMassMemorial Emergency Medical Services|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113170516/https://www.umassmemorialems.com/index.php/what-we-do2/9-1-1-call-taking2|url-status=live}}</ref>