NCFPD revises grant agreement with health care district

The grant agreement between the North County Fire Protection District and the Fallbrook Regional Health District has been revised.

The health care district had been funding half of the cost of new and refurbished NCFPD ambulances including equipment. A 5-0 NCFPD board vote Tuesday, June 25, approved the new agreement in which the health care district will provide a flat grant award of $200,000 per fiscal year for the ambulance replacements.

“That was good,” NCFPD fire chief Keith McReynolds said.

Fallbrook Hospital closed in December 2014, which has caused NCFPD ambulances to transport patient...