City considers adding more medical response units to fire department
Posted Jun 7, 2016 7:56 am.
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A report heading to a city committee Tuesday is asking for more medical response units for the fire department.
The department has two right now under a trial program.
The medical response units head to calls of a medical nature where a fire truck isn’t needed and often arrive before an ambulance.
However, if the city wants to add more Councillor Ward Sutherland says some negotiation with the province should be in order.
“My question is, if we are doing the job of the EMS and it’s more successful and we’re funding it and the province is funding the EMS — this really doesn’t make sense and we need to come to some type of agreement with the province,” Sutherland said.
The report says the two units responded to more than 2,600 calls over nine months, making them among the busiest response units in the city.
