In the last two weeks, the Amesbury Fire Department responded to 191 calls, 162 of them within city limits but 27 of them to neighboring communities which have mutual aid pacts with the city. Only on two occasions during that time frame did local firefighters receive mutual aid, according to figures released by the mayor’s office on Monday.
During that span, the Amesbury Fire Department’s union has been highlighting mutual aid calls on its Facebook page describing times and instances where it responded to communities without its own ambulance services that have called out for help.
“A1 and A2 were (Ambulance 1 and 2) dispatched almost simultaneously for mutual aid EMS today. A2 to Newbury to assist for their multiple EMS calls, and A1 to Newburyport due to no other ambulances being available in the area."