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Ambulance finally has a place to call home
By Steve McCasland, Bandon Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | No comments posted.
BANDON — Bay Cities Ambulance crew and vehicles have a permanent home — at last — across U.S. Highway 101 from the Bandon Rural Fire Department’s main station.
Mast Bros. Towing, which operates out of the opposite end of the complex at 65 17th St. S.E., completed construction of the building last year, following extensive consultations with the ambulance company.
“We signed a lease for a term of more than five years,” Bay Cities Operations Manager Tim Novotny said. “We’ve been in business on the South Coast for 43 years and plan to continue to be a partner in the community.”
Two paramedics or a paramedic and an EMT are on duty at the new station 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Novotny said the company had dealt with unstable living conditions in Bandon for the past few years, having worked out of several different locations, including at least two houses and a motel.
Longtime Bandon resident and 15-year paramedic Ivan Hultin called the new Bandon digs a station to be proud of.
“These are the nicest quarters I’ve ever been stationed in,” he said.
Bay Cities moved into its new home in mid-August and assigned a second ambulance to Bandon at that time. Since then the company has added a wheelchair transport van.
“Prior to that, we had only one ambulance here and had to call a second one from Coos Bay if it was needed,” Novotny explained.
Bay Cities’ main station on Ocean Boulevard in Coos Bay houses the company’s five ambulances and six wheelchair transports. Two ambulances in Coos Bay are staffed 24/7 and a third is staffed 12 hours a day.
In addition to emergency responses, Bay Cities handles patient transfers from Bay Area Hospital or Southern Coos Hospital to other medical facilities.
Bay Cities has about three dozen paramedics and EMTs that work in its assigned service area, which runs from Lakeside to the Coos/Curry county line to the south, and inland to the border with Coquille’s assigned service area.
Bay Cities, headquartered in Coos Bay, has 50 full-time employees. The company is owned by J.D. Fuiten of Hillsboro, who purchased it in October 2006. He also owns Metro West Ambulance in Hillsboro, Medix Ambulance in Astoria/Warrenton and Pacific West Ambulance in Lincoln City/Newport. The combined companies comprise the state’s largest privately owned ambulance service.
Mast Bros. Towing, which operates out of the opposite end of the complex at 65 17th St. S.E., completed construction of the building last year, following extensive consultations with the ambulance company.
“We signed a lease for a term of more than five years,” Bay Cities Operations Manager Tim Novotny said. “We’ve been in business on the South Coast for 43 years and plan to continue to be a partner in the community.”
Two paramedics or a paramedic and an EMT are on duty at the new station 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Novotny said the company had dealt with unstable living conditions in Bandon for the past few years, having worked out of several different locations, including at least two houses and a motel.
Longtime Bandon resident and 15-year paramedic Ivan Hultin called the new Bandon digs a station to be proud of.
“These are the nicest quarters I’ve ever been stationed in,” he said.
Bay Cities moved into its new home in mid-August and assigned a second ambulance to Bandon at that time. Since then the company has added a wheelchair transport van.
“Prior to that, we had only one ambulance here and had to call a second one from Coos Bay if it was needed,” Novotny explained.
Bay Cities’ main station on Ocean Boulevard in Coos Bay houses the company’s five ambulances and six wheelchair transports. Two ambulances in Coos Bay are staffed 24/7 and a third is staffed 12 hours a day.
In addition to emergency responses, Bay Cities handles patient transfers from Bay Area Hospital or Southern Coos Hospital to other medical facilities.
Bay Cities has about three dozen paramedics and EMTs that work in its assigned service area, which runs from Lakeside to the Coos/Curry county line to the south, and inland to the border with Coquille’s assigned service area.
Bay Cities, headquartered in Coos Bay, has 50 full-time employees. The company is owned by J.D. Fuiten of Hillsboro, who purchased it in October 2006. He also owns Metro West Ambulance in Hillsboro, Medix Ambulance in Astoria/Warrenton and Pacific West Ambulance in Lincoln City/Newport. The combined companies comprise the state’s largest privately owned ambulance service.
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