City council agrees to spend extra to keep fire-medics

City council agrees to spend extra to keep fire-medics

Red Deer will maintain its integrated fire and ambulance system after council reluctantly agreed to foot a bill that could be as high as $3 million. City council was put in the position of choosing the future of an integrated service in place since 1962 in which firefighters are also trained as paramedics after the province said it would not pay the full cost for the service. Alberta Emergency Health Services said that contracting out ambulance …