VIDEO: There’s a new ambulance serving the greater Bangor area.
After several years of planning, the Hermon Fire Department now has their own ambulance, staffed by Hermon EMS.
This is something they couldn’t have achieved, Chief Cody Sullivan says, without Northern Light Medical Transport.
“The collaboration was that we were ready to start doing EMS, but we knew it was going to take time to order an ambulance. Lead time on an ambulance right now is three years, and there’s a lot that goes into starting up an ambulance service from the ground up. So, our partnership with Northern Light Medical Transport made it possible,” explains Chief Sullivan.
“It bought us the time to do it the right way, and they partnered with us and helped guide us to what the right way to do it was.”
Sullivan says the ambulance costed about $300,000, paid in part by ARPA funds.
The new ambulance allows Hermon Fire to be able to expand the kinds of calls they respond to, as well as improve response times.
