Guilford County EMS would partner with Greensboro on proposed new base

  • Source: Greensboro News and Record
  • Published: 01/16/2020 04:42 AM

Firefighters and emergency medical responders would share space in a new fire station in east Greensboro if Guilford County officials give the go ahead tonight. The Greensboro Fire Department plans to demolish Fire Station 7 on Gatewood Avenue later this year and replace it with an $8 million station several times larger. Just less than a fourth of the new building would be occupied by a Guilford Emergency Medical Services team now housed in a separate county building several blocks away on U.S. 29. Assistant Greensboro Fire Chief Dwayne Church said pairing the two types of emergency responders in the same building is a big plus because they often respond to the same incidents. "To have EMS there, it's a benefit. They have some (medical) equipment that we don't carry because they are a paramedic unit," he said.



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