Belmont Fire To Upgrade Ambulance Service
Department to take over Advanced Life Support services.
In a move that will provide Belmont residents with better medical care while adding to town coffers, the Belmont Board of Selectmen approved a Belmont Fire Department proposal Monday, Jan. 28, for the department's ambulance crews to provide Advanced Life Support services beginning in July. Not only will residents who are injured or suffer from a serious medical condition receive quicker and greater care from Belmont Fire, Belmont Fire Department Chief David Frizzell said that projected revenues calculated by a study committee predicted that not only will the town's bottom line benefit from added fees, the service will pay for a new town ambulance in five years without digging into the town's Capital Budget. The town's Fire Department …
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