CANTON MA Emergency Services

Canton Emergency FD

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While doing some internet research this morning, I came across the town of Canton MA, population 21,561 or about the size of LaSalle Peru combined. Initially I found they had a private ambulance service and I read the information on their web site and I thought, this is impressive and this private company seems to have all their ducks in a row. Then I wondered do they also have a FD emergency service a further search showed that they do.

Sure this is a city a little larger than Peru but it showed that 2 separate emergency services can operate within the same city. The private ambulance service probably has less employees than PVAS but they are handling more routine calls, the kind most frequently handled in our city. Read through both sites and thought about the constant bickering about PVAS while other cities are thinking outside the box and coming up with other solutions. True I don't know the financials with each department but I am saying we need to quit protecting a private company that keeps elected city officials on its Board of Directors as mandated in their bylaws and as someone recently said, to get our heads out of the sand.