although, currently two other providers, those are king american and amr that provide ambulance response for advanced calls as shown on this table here, the percentage of the fire department ambulance responses has declined since 2007. in 2013, the fire department's response was 73 percent of the total market, which is below the eoa requirement established by the state of 80 percent. and in order to determine the staffing level needed to increase the fire department market share, audit team compiled since months of data from 2013 to calculate the demand at every interval of the day, between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on average, the fire department needs three more ambulance shifts in order to increase the number of responses to meet the 80 percent minimum requirement. these three ambulance shifts would require 16 additional ems positions and those have been included in the mayor's fiscal year, 14/15 budget. while our analysis indicates that the three ambulance shifts would be sufficient, to increase the fire department's market share to the 80 percent requirement, we did identify other sta