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To me the root issue came about when someone realized that EMS could possibly make a municipality revenue. Suddenly fire departments could justify their budgets because now they bring in revenue. Except for the part where they do not. Reimbursements are at an all time low as are collections in most places. Running a 911 EMS system is not going to be profitable almost anywhere outside of wealthy suburbs.
And that's fine.
We should not expect emergency services to be profitable, that is not their intent. The unhappy fire-EMS marriage will end when this collectively realized by those that fund us. To do this we need to be cost effective and provide more services than we do now so we are worth that funding.
And that's fine.
We should not expect emergency services to be profitable, that is not their intent. The unhappy fire-EMS marriage will end when this collectively realized by those that fund us. To do this we need to be cost effective and provide more services than we do now so we are worth that funding.