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Escambia County EMS Receives Eight New Ambulances With Blue Angels Theme
March 8, 2024
Escambia County EMS has taken delivery of eight new ambulances with a new Blue Angels design.
The eight 2023 four-wheel drive Ford F-550 XLT ambulances were ordered about two years ago. The final cost was about $302,000 each.
The new ambulances will be placed into service soon after final preparations such as radios.
Thursday night, the Escambia County Commission voted to purchase six additional 2024 Ford F-550 Horton Type I ambulances at $402,076 each for a total amount of $2,412,456. They will be paid for using Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) funds. The ambulances will provide replacements for aging ambulances beyond their life cycle.
“It’s certainly important to me, and to the entire board, that our public safety team have everything they need to be able to work for our citizens effectively and efficiently,” Escambia County Commission Chairman Steven Barry said. “I’m excited for the new equipment that is here and even more excited as much more new equipment is purchased and on the way to our team.”
Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore said Escambia County EMS is currently looking to hire nine now EMTs and nine new paramedics.
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10 Responses to “Escambia County EMS Receives Eight New Ambulances With Blue Angels Theme”
EMS makes a profit for the county. Private EMS makes a profit for themselves.
What they should do is contract a private EMS service to do the transfers. Charge the private agency a premium to allow them to run the transfers that they can recoup from billing for the transports. That way County EMS has a set amount of money from that contract at the beginning and doesn’t have to actually run the transfers so they can focus on 911.
PRIVATE CHEAPER???
I doubt private would have charged me only $200 before I was airlifted from a farm accident in June.
Great care by our county EMS…
WOULDNT trade their service for a profit private company!!!
@G Private EMS is cheaper in the long run as they direct bill the patient. No government money is involved in operations or administration.
This is awesome and greatly needed in Escambia County, I hope you can keep enough employees to operate them full time and I completely agree one needs to be stationed at the North End!
Glad we have 8 new ambulances thar were dearly needed…but have 2 concernes:
1.DO WE HAVE ENOUGH PERSONNEL TO OPPERATE THEM?
2. WILL NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY HAVE ACCESS TO ONE THAT IS DESIGNATED TO SERVE THE NORTH END?
At a recent Dist 5 Town Hall meeting both of these issues we discussed at length.
Now if only they could keep enough people employed to staff those trucks!
When it comes to saving lives, is cheaper really the best option “Not a Good Ol Boy”?
Those are great additions … Well done Escambia County!
It may be initally cheaper to contract EMS services, but in the long run, the ambulance transport bills are substantially higher than public provided EMS services. Private ambulance companies are in it to make money.
Blue Angels ambulances are gonna be COOL! What other town has cool Blue Angel ambulances driving around? None!
It’s cheaper to contract all that EMS stuff