Rural/Metro Corp. Deploys 35 Ambulances, 100 Personnel to Aid with Hurricane Opal Disaster.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1995-- Scottsdale-based Rural/Metro Corp., one of the nation's leading emergency and health care services companies, today deployed approximately 35 ambulances and more than 100 emergency personnel from five states to provide disaster, rescue and health care assistance in the wake of Hurricane Opal's savage assault on the Gulf Coast. Rural/Metro has activated crews from Florida, Georgia, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. and Texas. Most of the crews will be deployed to the Florida Panhandle The Florida Panhandle is the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 16 counties in the state. It is a narrow strip lying between Alabama and Georgia to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. area from standby locations in Tallahassee, Houston and Montgomery County, Alabama Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. It was named in honor of Lemuel P. Montgomery, a military officer killed at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in the War of 1812. . Rural/Metro is also providing a disaster response command trailer to coordinate disaster response, and provide support to disaster response teams. Rural/Metro crews have already transported over 80 patients in Pensacola, Florida
"Rural/Metro is doing all that we can assist our fellow emergency workers in Pensacola," said Albyn Roman, Rural/Metro's on-site Incident Commander in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . "Because of our vast national operations, Rural/Metro has an extraordinary depth of resources that are available to respond to crisis situations which occur within the communities that we serve, as well as across the nation." Rural/Metro currently has ambulance service and/or fire protection operations in more than 100 communities throughout Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Company provides "911" and general ambulance services, fire protection and other safety-related services to municipal, residential, commercial and industrial customers. Rural/Metro responds to more than 900,000 calls annually for its services. CONTACT: Rural/Metro Corporation, Scottsdale Jim Bolin, 602/994-3886 Albyn Roman, 407/298-3600 |
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