EMS Adds New Ambulance to Fleet from CARES Funding

The Brooke County EMS is adding a new ambulance to the fleet, putting the community at a total of six. This is the final in a batch of three ambulances that were purchased from CARES funding.
The funding allowed for communities to receive direct economic assistance from the federal government. In the case of Brooke County, some of those funds were put into upgrading the ambulance fleet with new vehicles equipped with modern technology that will amount to lower costs for the community.
“More reliability on the ambulances, hopefully it will help decrease our maintenance costs associated with them, and it’s just a new look for the service,” Brooke County EMS Deputy Director Jeff Luck said.
The expanded fleet will not only increase the safety of the community as more vehicles means lower cost and less concerns of reliability issues, it also features some of the newest technology available for EMS to provide the best care while reducing time loading patients.
“It’s in service and ready to go equipped,” Commissioner Thomas DiSerio said. “The nice thing is we were able, with the work of Director Nickerson and Deputy Director Luck, that they went for the power load and power cot systems, which ultimately is going to serve Brooke County residents better.”
“These ambulances do have the power load system, we have those systems currently in our ambulances and that’s been a major advantage for us in the way of injury prevention for back injuries, and it’s also for patient safety,” Luck said.
The new ambulance puts the community in a position of greater safety with two of the three vehicles from the CARE funding being brand new, and the other was purchased with just 14,000 miles on it.