Metro Ambulance

[garys]

There's a new ambulance company operating out of Woburn. Metro Ambulance is a recent start up and I saw one of their ambulances in the Burlington area yesterday. They apparently only have two or maybe three ambulances only at this point.

https://www.metroambulance.org/

The current hiring page says "paramedics" and the picture of the interior of an ambulance shows AlS equipment. I just don't know if they are operating at the ALS level or if that is stock photo.

I have no idea on communications and didn't even know it was a MA licensed ambulance when I saw it.

[ecps92]

they claim to have been around for two decades (Correction, the Founder not the Company)
https://www.metroambulance.org/about-us.html

There's a new ambulance company operating out of Woburn. Metro Ambulance is a recent start up and I saw one of their ambulances in the Burlington area yesterday. They apparently only have two or maybe three ambulances only at this point.

https://www.metroambulance.org/

The current hiring page says "paramedics" and the picture of the interior of an ambulance shows AlS equipment. I just don't know if they are operating at the ALS level or if that is stock photo.

I have no idea on communications and didn't even know it was a MA licensed ambulance when I saw it.

[garys]

From what I was told, he's a firefighter in one of the communities up there. Active or retired I don't remember which.

There was a Metro Ambulance out of Dorchester about 40 years ago. It didn't last long and someone else eventually bought the assets, maybe Reardon Ambulance. Which is also no longer around.

they claim to have been around for two decades (Correction, the Founder not the Company)
https://www.metroambulance.org/about-us.html

[Citywide 173]

Licensed at the ALS level, 2 Class I vehicles on the license.

[ecps92]

google says Winchester Fire
another google returns as affiliated with Armstrong

From what I was told, he's a firefighter in one of the communities up there. Active or retired I don't remember which.

There was a Metro Ambulance out of Dorchester about 40 years ago. It didn't last long and someone else eventually bought the assets, maybe Reardon Ambulance. Which is also no longer around.

[garys]

Okay. I *think* he may have worked for Armstrong at one time. Don't know him personally, but know people who know people who know him. Sort of.

google says Winchester Fire
another google returns as affiliated with Armstrong

[garys]

Thanks.

Licensed at the ALS level, 2 Class I vehicles on the license.

[CW158]

They have a very unique radio system. Each truck has a dedicated radio tied to a LTE gateway so essential each truck operates a repeater so they can have portable coverage in the vicinity of their trucks .

They operate on 471.1500 but because they are only transmitting of a 2 story building and out of each of their trucks, they signal doesn't make it very far.

[garys]

That's interesting. I may plug it into a scanner since I'm up that way fairly often.

They have a very unique radio system. Each truck has a dedicated radio tied to a LTE gateway so essential each truck operates a repeater so they can have portable coverage in the vicinity of their trucks .

They operate on 471.1500 but because they are only transmitting of a 2 story building and out of each of their trucks, they signal doesn't make it very far.

[garys]

WRVZ661, with 11K2F3E, 7K60FXD, 7K60FXE, 8K10F1D, 8K10F1E as approved emissions types.