As officials at the City of Buffalo grapple with the potential of a multi-million dollar budget shortfall, government leaders are searching for ways to make city services more efficient and raise more revenue.
One of the things that city officials had been considering is starting its own ambulance service, which would be run, managed, and maintained by the Buffalo Fire Department. Given the scale of the fire department and a series of complaints against the current service provider, AMR, it may prove to be more cost-effective to bring these services back into municipal government…