Both the Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS say their call volumes haven't been drastically out of the ordinary.
First responders have been braving the elements to help those in need during the cold weather."[Crews] have really putting forth their best effort to take care of people, and they're feeling very good about it," Stephen White, Division Chief of Integrated Services at ATCEMS, said.
"It really doesn't take a long time to really get into the danger zone when you're dealing with the temperatures that we are today," White said. "We did that to try to take a little bit of the load off of the field response so that they would be available for more high acuity cold weather calls," White said.
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