AMR Announces 2003 Fleet Deployment Program.

Business Editors

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2002

American Medical Response (AMR) announced today that it has finalized its fiscal year 2003 National Fleet Deployment Program. The Company has just placed orders for over $28 million dollars of new state-of-the-art vehicles to initiate that program.

"This order will start the process for our vehicle replacement schedule during FY 2003," stated Ron Thackery, AMR Vice President of Safety, Risk Management and Fleet Administration. "These vehicles will be delivered to AMR operations nationwide as part of our ongoing fleet renewal program."

The new AMR vehicles will be produced by Interfleet, the vehicle manufacturer AMR has now used for over 10 years. "The AMR order will once-again be the largest single purchase of EMS vehicles industry-wide for this year," stated Mark Van Arnam, President of Interfleet. "These units will be produced to AMR's exacting standards at both our West Coast and East Coast facilities."

AMR is the nation's largest provider of medial transportation with more than 4000 vehicles, 19,000 employees, operating 911-emergency and non-emergency medial transportation in 35 states. AMR serves more than 4 million patients per year.