NCFPD approves sole-source agreement for ambulance remount

The North County Fire Protection District will be sending one of its ambulances to Life Line Emergency Vehicles for a remount. A 4-0 NCFPD board vote May 22, with Kathleen Thuner absent, authorized the sole source agreement with Life Line Emergency Vehicles.

“This allows us to remount an existing ambulance chassis,” NCFPD fire chief Steve Abbott said.

The sole source contract allows for consistency and maximum safety, as Life Line has provided NCFPD with ambulance modules since before the current ones were manufactured. That’s the same vendor we’ve used for the last 25 years,” Abbott said.

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