By Nicole Dorfman
Daily Camera
BOULDER, Colo. — Mountain View Fire Rescue crews surprised some Boulder technical school students with an ambulance on Thursday morning.
Ambulance crews showed up at the Boulder Technical Education Center at 9 a.m. to donate the ambulance to Boulder’s potential future emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
Crews turned over the keys of the former MVFR ambulance to Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Rob Anderson and BVSD EMS instructor Rick Dirr .
Deputy Chief Sterling Folden , Assistant Chief of Operations Pete Zick , EMS Division Chief Paul Johnson , EMS Captain Steven Knoll , EMS Lt. Neil Sheets and the MVFR Station 2 crew presented the ambulance. At the same time, dozens of students checked out the new teaching tool.
“To be able to take really good care of people, you need to be able to function in any environment; the back of an ambulance is where much of that work occurs,” Johnson said in a press release.
The 2007 Ford ambulance served both MVFR Station 5 and Station 9 before it was donated.
Students in Boulder TEC’s auto repair program also will get a chance to work with the ambulance. They’ll paint and vinyl-wrap the vehicle and be responsible for its upkeep.
“Partnerships like these are what make career and technical education come alive, said Arlie Huffman , Boulder TEC principal, and career and technical education director. “We are so appreciative of this donation, knowing that EMT is a career that is in high demand in our community and very popular with our students.”
The EMT program was made possible through a partnership with Front Range Community College . It’s a new addition to Boulder TEC’s health service offerings, which include an emergency medical responder, sports medicine, physical therapy and biomedical programs.
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