The Camanche Fire Department effective Wednesday will house both ambulances at the fire station, instead of having one ambulance there and another at the community center.
Camanche Fire Chief Dave Schutte, citing multiple factors, believes housing both ambulances at the Camanche Fire Department, 720 Ninth Ave., will benefit the city.
“We will move the second ambulance back to Central Station and run both of those ambulances out of there,” Schutte said. “We’ll still have emergency equipment down (at the community center). But our ambulance is the number one vehicle that we use every day. Multiple times a day. And for that to be down there I think is a disservice to the community. I think it’s a false sense of security and a false perception.”
Having one at the fire station and the other at the community center meant there was one on each side of the city’s railroad tracks.