and stephanie bergeron believes the medical community is discriminating and complicating how patients get care. >> anyone should be able to go to their primary care or an emergency room and say i'm having a problem with addiction. it should not be a struggle, it should be incorporated into your whole health. reporter: but until that happens these organizations are determined to save every life they can. >> you can come here are 1000 times, we do not care. we always say you are a client forever. >> this is opening people's eyes as far as what communities are capable of doing when they all sit at the same table. reporter: most safe station admissions in manchester happen right here at hospitals and the er when pains of withdrawal set in. hospital officials say admissions have skyrocketed and the cost of hospital detox runs over $2000 a day. they call it an inefficient use of resources. shelley: next week will mark six months for safe stations. so far, more than 650 people have come to manchester's fire stations for help. just 20% have been return participants. and they come from every c

. >> executive director stephanie bergeron cautions against premature celebration over the success. >> the success rate is on the back end. where are they now, that's really happening and we need to look at that. >> new hampshire ranks near the bottom nationallyn to access to treatment. according to the department of health and human services, new hampshire currently has 270 inpatient treatment beds. that's a 25% increase since february 2015. >> residential treatment, that level of care, that high intensity treatment is so necessary and we don't have enough beds, but a bed doesn't equate treatment. >> how are you doing, steven? walking a lot today . >> steven is 56. addicted to alcohol and sleeping on the streets for three weeks. he arrived with a gift for the station, maple syrup. and firefighters see it as a cry for help and respond. >> to make a change, it's hard for me. >> a coalition surrounds him in minutes. he'll get recovery support during the day at >> the response is kind and quick. >> thanks for the maple syrup. see you. >> florida, massachusetts, ohio, fdny in the bronx wa

stephanie coueignoux, fox 25 news. >> the driver who hit and killed five teenagers in vermont is being held on $1 million bail. police say steven bergeron hit a car full of high school students on interstate 89 late saturday night, when officers got to the scene, they say he stole one of the cruisers. he then allegedly hit the car again as well as 7 other vehicles. authorities say alcohol was not a factor but they are waiting the results of a drug test. bergeron is still unconscious at the hospital. authorities say he went to u. v. n. medical center for some sort of treatment, just hours before the crash. the hospital reached out to the mental health center, but he was facility. he does have a criminal past, he is an open domestic assault case and according to authorities his criminal record also includes an incident in massachusetts from 2014, but they say the outcome of that case is unclear. >> new at 4:00, columbus day means the tufts health plan 10k for women, the annual 6.2 race starts and ends on the common. race serves as u.s.a.track and field 10k championship race, the yearly race held at different providence college emily sisso