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R.I. ambulance co. closure leaves 95 unemployed

For the former employees, the surprise was a tough pill to swallow.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The sun has set on Universal Ambulance, after higher insurance premiums, lower medicaid pay outs and other cuts have put the company in receivership and its 95 employees out of work.

Jim Lymburner has given 19 years of service to Universal Ambulance, and he talked about those years with NBC 10, “it’s not just friends and co-workers. Like fire departments, we’ve become family, working with these people all these years.”

The patriarch of this family was Alfred Barbery, who built the company over 30 years ago. He passed away on October 14th, and now less than a month later his company is gone

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