Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2024 Jun;39(3):270-274. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X24000487. Epub 2024 Oct 21.
Little is known about how mass gatherings affect emergency response intervals. Previous research suggests that college football games increase ambulance transport intervals, but their impact on emergency response intervals is unexplored. This study examines how collegiate home football games in College Station, Texas (USA) affect emergency vehicle response intervals.
The study determined the impact of collegiate football games on emergency response intervals using incident data provided by the College Station Fire Department (CSFD). Home games during the 2021-2023 Texas A&M University (TAMU) football seasons were the period of interest. Responses for a 72-hour period (Friday-Sunday) on home game weekends (HGWs) and non-home game weekends (NHGWs) were included (n = 5,095).
Response intervals on football HGWs were an average of 30 seconds faster than on NHGWs. Emergency vehicles were 16.5% less likely to respond from fire station locations on HGWs compared to NHGWs. There was also a 12.1% increase in the number of calls to campus locations and a 9.7% increase in calls to the local entertainment district on HGWs compared to NHGWs.
Home collegiate football games do not delay response intervals for emergency response vehicles. Further research is needed to determine if these findings can be reproduced in other communities.
关于大型集会如何影响应急响应时间，我们知之甚少。先前的研究表明，大学橄榄球比赛会增加救护车转运时间，但它们对应急响应时间的影响尚未得到探索。本研究考察了德克萨斯州大学城（美国）的大学橄榄球主场比赛如何影响紧急车辆的响应时间。
本研究使用大学城消防局（CSFD）提供的事件数据，确定了大学橄榄球比赛对紧急响应时间的影响。研究期间为 2021-2023 年德克萨斯 A&M 大学（TAMU）橄榄球赛季的主场比赛期间。包括主场比赛周末（HGW）和非主场比赛周末（NHGW）内 72 小时（周五-周日）的响应数据（n=5095）。
HGW 上的响应间隔平均比 NHGW 快 30 秒。与 NHGW 相比，紧急车辆从 HGW 上的消防站位置响应的可能性降低了 16.5%。与 NHGW 相比，HGW 上的校园地点的呼叫数量增加了 12.1%，当地娱乐区的呼叫数量增加了 9.7%。
大学橄榄球主场比赛不会延迟应急响应车辆的响应时间。需要进一步研究以确定这些发现是否可以在其他社区重现。
