"Rally To Keep Volunteer EMS Services," - Brooklyn Eagle

Council Member Elizabeth Crowley (D-Queens), chair of the Fire and Criminal
Justice Committee, along with Brooklyn Council Members Lew Fidler, Vincent
Gentile and Al Vann as well as dozens of community-based volunteer ambulance
leaders, recently called on the FDNY to utilize the city’s neighborhood
volunteer ambulances. In January, the Fire Department booted the city’s
volunteer ambulances from its 911 system, which is seen as another step towards
phasing them completely out of the emergency medical response.

“FDNY’s move will inevitably result in backlogs, which will mean delays. And when it
comes to patient care, every second counts,” said Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer
Ambulance Corps Commander James Robinson.