June 6, 2008
Ambulance co. drops $1.7M expansion plans
An ambulance service company in Mexico has dropped its $1.7 million plans to build a new facility after Rumford selectmen threatened to stop hiring the company if the project was continued.
Med-Care Ambulance Service directors had approved the expanded facility last fall, but Rumford's three selectmen wanted the price, shared between 11 local towns, to be reduced, according to the Sun Journal in Lewiston.
Med-Care President Steve Brown told the paper that its decision to terminate the project was to save the ambulance service, which maintains long-term contracts with area towns. Rumford had warned it would sign up with a different service to spare itself the roughly $45,000 extra expense for its share of the proposed building, the paper reported.
Med-Care Ambulance Service directors had approved the expanded facility last fall, but Rumford's three selectmen wanted the price, shared between 11 local towns, to be reduced, according to the Sun Journal in Lewiston.
Med-Care President Steve Brown told the paper that its decision to terminate the project was to save the ambulance service, which maintains long-term contracts with area towns. Rumford had warned it would sign up with a different service to spare itself the roughly $45,000 extra expense for its share of the proposed building, the paper reported.
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