LEESBURG, Ga. (AP) - One southwest Georgia county is giving its small fleet of 12-year-old ambulances a big makeover.
Commissioners in Lee County are paying an Atlanta company to upgrade the county’s five ambulances, WALB-TV reported.
Workers performing the overhaul “take the box off of the ambulance and reuse just the box and put it on a brand new chassis truck and they redo the box,” said Billy Mathis, commission chairman for Lee County. “So you virtually have a brand new ambulance.”
But the cost is far lower. County officials say going the upgrade route saves taxpayers about $60,000 per ambulance compared with buying one that’s brand new. That makes for $300,000 in savings overall.
Lee County keeps one ambulance at each of its five fire stations. Fire Chief David Forrester said upgrades have been finished on three of the ambulances, with the remaining two pending.
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