CBC News
QUEENS COUNTY, Canada — The P.E.I. government is outfitting a half-ton truck to pick up bodies in Queens County in order to keep the ambulance service free to respond to emergencies.
The truck will only be used in cases where the coroner is called to the scene, and will only operate in Queens County. Currently, that work is done by an ambulance and crew, but the province’s deputy attorney general Edison Shea told CBC News Wednesday it doesn’t make sense to send an ambulance to pick up a body.
“EMS has been providing this service for the past number of years. They expressed concern about doing this,” said Shea.
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