Author: Tom Kranz

COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Despite vaccinations, increased testing and decreased hospitalizations, the virus and its variants are still with us and will be well into 2021, if not beyond. Transporting patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 is still a reality for EMS and still requires vigilance on our part. PPE is still…

The months-long rehabilitation of Ambulance  579 was declared a success on January 5, 2021, by Sgt. Ed Winsor who oversaw the project. The rig suffered a serious mechanical failure in April 2020, and the membership voted to rechassis it rather than replace it. The process involved removing the “box”, or patient compartment from its 10-year-old…