"If a fire engine, ambulance, police car, etc. is enroute to a "Code 3" (emergency) call and another Code 3 call comes in, even one more serious or closer to a responding resource, guess what? Early bird gets the worm." If you are unfortunate enough to live in a place with one fire engine, ambulance, police car, etc, then it is your choice of where you live that is erroneous. In most places, they usually have at least two (one for the grunts and one for the chiefs). Of course, calling the local donut shop would probably foster a quicker response. :0)