Whenever I read about ORCON, I wonder how ambulance services covering large rural areas manage to achieve their targets. The nearest ambulance station to us is a 20-minute drive in good weather during the day. (Add snow and ice to the equation and it can be impossible to get through.) On top of that, there's only one ambulance, so if it's on another call you either wait or they divert one from the next town, 25 minutes away. And on top of that, they have a rotating shift system whereby the ambulance goes "on-call" for 10 hours overnight. A technician takes it home and gets bleeped as needed, after doing the day shift. (It can result in staff doing a 106-hour work period!) Curiously, the service is still able to meet its targets, I suppose because quick response times in the towns and cities make up for the slower ones out here in the boonies.