Texas Emergency Medical Servies

[ninjamedic2293]

These were caught on their way into town by the airport. These will be the first new Type 1's in Austin EMS since the early 90's. These two will be run on a trial bassis to idnetify any issues and see how they hold up. We put approximatly 50,000 miles a year on our medium duty ambulances and retire them at 200,000-250,000 so these would probably need to remounted every two years or so negating some of the cost savings. Also there is not enough storage space on these units to carry the equipment of one of our Rescue, Tactical, or HazMat units so I dont forsee these being used for the entire department.