American Medical Response ambulances and emergency personnel crews from Bridgeport and New Haven have headed to New York as part of a contract with the Federal Emergency Management Administration to respond to the public health emergency created by COVID-19.
There will be no impact to the services provided to local communities, said Tawnya Silloway, spokeswoman for Global Medical Response, the parent company of AMR.
"As the nation’s largest provider of ground medical transportation and FEMA’s prime emergency medical service response provider, AMR has a national agreement with FEMA to provide ground ambulance, air ambulance, paratransit services and non-ambulance EMS personnel to supplement the Federal and Military response to a disaster, an act of terrorism or any other public health emergency," Silloway said.