cambridge mass - overview of ambulance system

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Cambridge firefighters are highly,Advanced Life Support/Paramedic
Units.

little more info

MIT has 1 bls ambulance staffed by student volunteers

Harvard has a student volunteer EMT squad but no vehicles

Professional Ambulance provides all of the transport units - CFD does
not have any transport units iirc - except maybe R1 can transport

non emergency calls all go to private or hospital ambulance services

Professional Ambulance transport units can be als or bls

historically - cataldo ambulance service in somerville has been the
backup source of ambulances for Cambridge - and arlington r1 has gone
to at least 1 call in cambridge - and probably watertown r1 and
belmont r1 also - boston ems avoids cambridge like the plague - have
not heard them do mutual aid in 50 years - which is very weird because
boston fd and cambridge fd do mutual aid all the time (mostly for
station coverage and multi alarm fires)