Huron's new ambulance substation to cut response times, save lives

HURON, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Ambulance effect times successful Huron are astir to get faster - the metropolis celebrated the opening of its caller ambulance substation connected Thursday.

The metropolis says the caller presumption volition assistance prevention lives by expediting effect times. Before its opening, crews sometimes had an further 20-minute drive, approximately, up of them.

Although the Coalinga Fire Department has been providing ambulance services to the City of Huron for years, they accidental they person been operating and responding either from Coalinga, which is astir 20 miles away, oregon adjacent doorway astatine CAL FIRE/Fresno County Fire Station 93.

City officials expect the substation to beryllium afloat staffed and operational wrong a month.