Hempstead delays EMT services contract vote - Newsday

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[Just Plain Ruff]

480 calls a month and your city cannot provide even BLS EMS services to it's residents, you have to rely on a outside service or make a cop drive your ambulance. JEMINY christmas. What a clusterfu#$$.

Edited November 28, 2012 by Captain ToHellWithItAll

[scott33]

I believe they do have a volly FD which also has a BLS EMS division. However, most of Hempstead's jobs have traditionally been handled by Nassau PD EMS