Looking at old Town Reports - Arlington Mass - Part 1 - The Paramedic Saga 1997 Annual Town Report - Arlington has been a member of the North Suburban Paramedic Consortium for 10 years - (translation - the Armstrong Ambulance Service (a private company) has been providing paramedics to cover Arlington for 10 years now)
2000 Annual Town Report (ATR) - in light of declining Medicare reimbursements to private ambulance companies, Arlington FD is considering becoming the paramedic provider for Arlington 2001 ATR - a ALS study report will be available before the 2002 Town Meeting 2002 ATR - no mention of ALS 2003 ATR - no mention of ALS - Armstrong donates 7 AEDs to PD 2004 ATR - no mention of ALS 2005 ATR - ALS study will be done in 2006 2006 ATR - ? no mention of ALS 2007 ATR - will study ALS 2008 ATR - still exploring ALS 2009 ATR - still exploring ALS 2010 ATR - still exploring ALS 2011 ATR - still exploring ALS 2012 ATR - still exploring ALS 2013 ATR - ? still exploring ALS I kid you not - approx 8 years in a row they have included the same exact sentence in the Annual Town Report I wonder if any of the ALS reports were ever really written? 2003 Annual report has photo of Brian Connors donating AEDs to APD Part 2 - Response Times - tune in tomorrow - same bat channel - same bat time -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
