Due to no ambulances being available in Airdrie,  Airdrie's Fire Department responded to the first of four simultaneous medical responses, transporting patients to Airdrie's Urgent Care. 
 
Acting Deputy Chief Mike Pirie of the Airdrie Fire Department said that this kind of occurrence is extremely rare and extremely worrying.
 
"I can't recall a time that the Airdrie Fire Department has done this. Since 2010. I can't recall a time," Pirie said. "It does cause concern, not only because of the extended scene times but the lack of the resources that are are are available to take care of patients are an absolute concern for us."
 
Two patients from two separate scenes were transported by the AFD to the Airdrie Urgent Care Center for treatment. The additional calls were attended to by EMS as ambulances became available to respond in Airdrie. According to a press release, the following medical situations occurred:
 
• Fall with a fractured leg
• Two patients at a single residence fell sustaining injuries to their heads
• Chest pain
• Fall with neck/back pain
 
Pirie underscored that the fractured leg was one of the more serious calls that the Airdrie Fire Department received and attended to.
 
"The [fractured leg] call came in at 12:49 P.M. They [AFD] transported at 1:13 P.M," he said. "They [AFD] waited roughly 20 minutes. That's a very long scene time. But it's becoming more the norm of what we see when we're on one of these calls."
 
According to Pirie, regulations of patient transport do not foresee these kinds of circumstances.
 
"The regulations are very focused upon ambulances doing transportation [of patients]. It's a scenario where if you follow the regulations to a tee, you need ambulances to transport people. But at the same time, those regulations aren't built for these kinds of scenarios. This is not normal and we don't want firetrucks taking people to clinics, but we don't have a choice."
 
Discover Airdrie was able to speak to someone who witnessed one of the patients that Airdrie's Fire Department transported to Airdrie Urgent Care.
Susan Verdi, was out on her porch trying to get some fresh air when she saw her 76-year-old neighbour fall taking out the garbage. Verdi called 9-11 after her neighbour called out to her from across the parking lot saying her head was hurting and she couldn't get up. 
 
"When she went down. She hit really hard so I phoned 9-11 at 1:06 P.M. and they said they would send somebody and they asked what happened and if she was okay," Verdi said. "Then another fellow pulled up and I said, 'hey, can you go help this because I have COVID, so couldn't go help her. He went and got blankets."
 
Approximately twenty minutes after her call to 9-11, Verdi said she heard sirens.
 
"It was a battalion [fire] truck. They all helped her get up and put her in the truck and then they drove her to urgent care," she said. 
 
Verdi said she overheard a firefighter stating that there were no ambulances in the city.
 
"This is not good," she said.
 
According to HSSA - The Health Sciences Association of Alberta, between Monday, January 10, 2022 – Sunday, January 16, 2022, there were at least 148 Red Alerts in at least 35 communities across the province.