WATERTOWN â The city Fire Departmentâs rescue truck has been dispatched to more than 2,600 EMS calls so far this year.
But the City Council on Monday might decide to take the rescue truck off the road permanently and put a stop to responses to all medical calls by firefighters.
Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith is introducing a resolution at Monday nightâs council meeting to end the rescue truck calls.
For years, he has said that thereâs no need for the rescue truck to go out on EMS calls because Guilfoyle Ambulance Services already responds to them and it duplicates services.
WATERTOWN — A Watertown man was airlifted Thursday to Upstate Medical University in Syracuse after he was arrested and found to be shot with what appeared to be a projectile