Editing Emergency service (section)

==Response time==
[[File:NHP Battleborn Charger Leaving SoCo Code 3.jpg|thumb|Timely responses by emergency services are crucial. In this image, a [[Nevada State Police]] cruiser leaves a [[police station]] with its lights and sirens on.]]
A common measurement in [[benchmarking]] the efficacy of emergency services is response time, the amount of time that it takes for emergency responders to arrive at the scene of an incident after the emergency response system was activated.  Due to the nature of emergencies, fast response times are often a crucial component of the emergency service system.<ref name="6 minutes">{{cite web|last=Davis|first=Robert|title=The price of just a few seconds lost: People die|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/ems-day2-cover.htm|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=5 February 2013|date=20 May 2005|archive-date=7 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307153128/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/ems-day2-cover.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>