SA Ambulance Service

 Did you know?

• SA Ambulance Service has more than 1200 career staff and more than 1500 volunteers.
• There are 108 ambulance stations across the state.
• 70 of these stations are staffed by volunteers in smaller country towns.
• In 2008-09 ambulance crews responded to more than 250 000 incidents.
• On average, SA Ambulance Service answers a triple zero (000) call every four seconds.
• Ambulance vehicles travel around 10 million km every year.
• Only around 4% of ambulance work is responding to vehicle crashes.
• Two-thirds of our workforce are volunteers.