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Originally Posted by Kenswing
Because the current ambulance transport provider (AMR) didn’t have enough resources dedicated to the county. I think Don said that they only had 7 or 8 county wide. The Villages Public Safety Department has purchased 12 new ambulances. Of those, nine will be front line units with 3 used as spares. The County has also purchased, I think 12 ambulances. So you can see that county wide we’re going from about 7 available ambulances to around twenty or so. I would say it’s fair to assume we’ll see higher fire costs. We just tripled the number of ambulances we’ll have. I’ll happily pay the increase to insure my loved one and neighbors can get to the hospital in a reasonable time.
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Agree, many Villages have resident purchased defibrillators which are less effective with delayed ambulance response times.
Do I understand correctly ambulances will replace the existing Villages EMT vehicles and use existing staff?