STERLING HEIGHTS — The Sterling Heights Fire Department recently unveiled two new initiatives aimed at improving emergency response times and public safety.

“The focus of both of these initiatives is to improve the response capabilities of the Fire Department and deal with the ever-increasing emergency calls that we’re seeing across our city,” Fire Chief Kevin Edmond said. “Our department wants to ensure that we send the right resources at the right time to emergencies.”

The two initiatives — a peak demand unit with two basic life-support ambulances, and medical priority dispatching — were unveiled during a press conference Oct. 7.

The peak demand unit is staffed by four newly-hired EMT firefighters and will operate 10 hours a day, Tuesday through Friday, to free up advanced life suppor

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