Concord Fire’s EMS Strategic Plan Recommending Another Ambulance
Adding a primary ambulance to the West Concord Fire Station is the primary recommendation of a strategic plan to solidify CFD’s emergency medical service, which will be presented publicly next Tuesday, Nov. 27.
Not being a big fan of hyperbole, Concord Fire Chief Mark Cotreau pauses for a moment before carefully articulating four words he’ll repeat several times during a media briefing on the Emergency Medical Service Strategic Plan to be presented during a Nov. 27 public form. The words, “acute critical service gap,” describe CFD’s increasing reliance on mutual aid for EMS calls and medical transports, a trend Cotreau and a team of CFD and finance department members have examined over the past year. Their findings: That CFD, with one ambulance cross-staffed with another piece of fire apparatus, can no longer adequately respond to all requests for emergency medical transports in Concord, a town with about 17,600 residents but a service population…
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Ron Pitcock, Jr.
3:07 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
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