After 50 years, the Ranlo Fire Department will no longer be handling ambulance calls in Gaston County.
Gaston County officials told Ranlo Fire Chief Doug Moore in a letter May 24 that their contract would not be renewed for the next fiscal year, according to Queen City News.
The town-operated ambulances will cease on July 1 and the county’s services will respond instead.
“Since 1976, Ranlo Fire and Rescue has operated an ambulance providing treatment and transport of the sick and injured,” Moore said in a response to the decision. “The contract through the years has changed many times concerning how the ambulance portion of our services was financially reimbursed and operated.”
