Fire trucks and ambulances took about as much time as usual to arrive in the days before and after New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers went into effect. That’s despite about 2,000 staff calling out sick partly in protest.

The dispatch data, provided by FDNY, comes after WNYC/Gothamist uncovered that officials had not publicly reported these response times since early August — an omission that technically violates city code.

Since the vaccine mandate deadline on October 29th, fire response times hovered between three and four minutes, according to the partial dataset. That’s on par with the average dispatch and travel durations for August, September and the first few weeks of October.

Emergency medical services (EMS) teams, a subsection of FDNY, also remained steady throughout the same time period, taking between 7 and 8 minutes to arrive on the scene for life-threatening medical emergencies. But the city did not provide data for recent months, so it is unclear if this was faster or slower than usual.

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