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o - Fll'E 762 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ' LEE COUNTY POSTOFFICE BOX 987 Sanford, North Carolina 27330 BUSINESS BILLING & COLLECTiCti PHONE. 919-774-1011 PHONE: 919-774-17'2 To: Mr. liiam Cowan, County Manager ~71~ APR 198° From: Joel T:' Jackson, EMS Supervisor RECEIVED W COUTy YAWR Subject: Emergency Vehicles (gvr~'. Date: April 25, 1989 As of April 7, 1989, Lee County EMS has been operating under extremely difficult circumstances due to having two of our units out of service. On March 8th, our wreck unit was involved in an accident. It has now been out of service for 52 days and is expected to be out approximately one month longer at least. At that time we brought our oldest unit back into front-line service. This unit is a 1981 Ford and at this time has 93,953 miles on it. This unit is also operating as a back up unit for local calls, as well as carrying all of our extrication equipment. This unit has responded to 40 accidents and traveled 392 miles since March 8, 1989. On April 7th our main transfer unit, a 1988 tltasel,became disabled. The motor in the diesel is going to have to be replaced (it is still under warranty). This unit has been out of service for two weeks now and is expected to be out for approximately one week longer. Since that date our 1987 Ford van has been moved up to become our main transfer unit as well as being a back up unit for local calls. This ambulance has 61,995 miles on the odometer. EMS has responded for a total of 30 transfers and has traveled a total 2,380 miles in this two week period. We have placed our 1982 Ford van back into first out status for local calls. It also serves as a back up for our transfer unit when the transfer unit has to go in for routine maintenance. This unit is now showing 115,820 miles. As of April 21st, Lee County EMS has responded to 973 calls and our units have traveled a total of 20,779 miles. We have been averaging 60 calls per week since January 1st. Our biggest problem arises when we have multiple emergency transfers at the same time. Without our main transfer unit we are having to delay these transfers, some for as long as 5 hours and take these calls on a priority basis. This causes a great deal of inconvenience and stress to be put on both the physicians who need to have their patients transferred as well ale our own personnel. We have spoken with Mr. Dennis Hamby from Ashley Emergency Services about our situation. He has agreed to sell Lee Count; a 1989 Type II