NCFPD awards power gurneys contract to Stryker EMS

The North County Fire Protection District board voted 5-0 May 28 to award a contract to Stryker EMS for three power gurneys.

“We’re very excited,” said NCFPD division chief Gary Lane. “It’s something that our EMS committee as well as our health and safety committee had been looking at for quite some time.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has an Assistance to Firefighters Grant program which provided $350,000 to the North County Fire Protection District. NCFPD budgeted $33,000 of that to purchase the three power gurneys.

“Older gurneys always required multiple firefighters to lift them,...