Orange County California

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Just out of curiosity, why not just have all of the ambulances covered by paramedics, instead of having them step off of the engine to ride in? Thus, also avoiding knowing how many paramedics (if any) you'll get since not all of the engines are staffed the same...

 

Trav!

 

Now believe it or not, for decades Orange County has not allowed private ambulance companies to have paramedics on their ambulances. Only recently did the country tested a pilot program that allowed private ambulance companies to run paramedics on their ambulances for IFT.