FAST FACTS

• About 90 emergency medical dispatchers (EMD) and staff work at the Southport Ambulance Station.

• Each ambulance car is tracked through GPS.

• EMDs have 10 seconds to pick up a call.

• Paramedics always have a duress alarm on them.

• 30-50 ambulance cars work on Gold Coast each night.

• Seven dispatch centres in Queensland.

• Around 600 calls are made each night to the Gold Coast centre alone.