Ambulances, equipment, labor costs pay off for Longboat Key Fire Rescue

Ambulances, equipment, labor costs pay off for Longboat Key Fire Rescue

Longboat Key Fire Chief Paul Dezzi is particularly proud of one Longboat Key Fire Rescue statistic: a 67% cardiac arrest survival rate in 2025.“Why is that? It’s because of the training the guys are going through, it’s the personnel that we have, and it’s the equipment that our tax dollars buy for us,” Dezzi said. “That’s this past year, and that will fluctuate depending on the number of patients we have with cardiac arrest, but that means we ha…