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WRITTEN MOTION - EMS AMBULANCE RESPONSE SERVICE

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5.     WRITTEN MOTION, Councillor Gomes, requesting, that the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods meet with EMS Director Mark McGraw, for the purpose of discussing the overworked, overwhelmed EMS system and ambulance response service in the City of New Bedford; and further, that the EMS Director make available to the Committee the number of mutual aid ambulances that have been called to the City to service the residents since January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020; and further, that a breakdown of how much revenue is being lost, in addition to the time that it is taking for us to get mutual aid to the residents of the City; and further, to also re-look at how we are dispatching EMS Fire and Police during emergency medical calls.

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