Alameda Fire Department (AFD) serves our community not just by fighting fires, but by fulfilling its primary mission to protect life, property, and the environment. This week, AFD placed its shiny new Medical Unit 2 into service at Fire Station 2, 635 Pacific Avenue.
[1]“This new Ford F-550 built-up replaces the last of our older style ambulances and now standardizes all our frontline medical units,” AFD stated in a report posted on Facebook [2] and Instagram [3]. “The New Medic 2 also features our new door logo which will be placed on all new apparatus.”
The new logo reads: City of Alameda Fire Department Emergency Medical Services Paramedic Unit.
AFD is an Advanced Life Support (ALS) agency that provides paramedics on every unit while also staffing four transporting ambulances with a Firefighter/EMT & Firefighter/Paramedic. Anyone who has ever experienced a medical emergency on the island and has been helped by AFD paramedics can attest to the exceptional service these skilled professionals provide.
[4]“Thank you to all our members who took part in designing, ordering, and placing this new Medic 2 into Service,” AFD stated in the report.
Fire Station 2, where the new medical unit is now in service, is the oldest staffed fire station in Alameda. Serving the west end of the island, it is staffed daily with a minimum of eight personnel across four pieces of apparatus, according to its page on the City of Alameda [5] website.