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3 Md. fire and EMS companies seeking to double ambulance crews

The companies are each asking for an additional $110,000 for fiscal year 2014

By Bryna Zumer
The Baltimore Sun

BEL AIR, Md. — Three Harford County fire and EMS companies are asking for more funding from the county government so they can potentially double the size of their ambulance crews, the county’s public safety commission chairman Tony Bennett said Monday.

The companies of Bel Air, Aberdeen and Joppa-Magnolia are each asking for an additional $110,000 for fiscal year 2014, Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association spokesman Rich Gardiner said.

Those companies are the only ones that do not depend on the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Foundation to provide emergency medical services, Bennett said.

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