Instead of retiring full ambulances, the county might keep the ambulance boxes that house the stretcher and medical supplies and put it on a new chassis, which costs about $155,000 compared with ...

Thursday morning, Box 11, a volunteer-run team tasked with assisting first responders at the scene, took steps to be granted an ambulance.

The new ambulances include “one-finger” push-button self-loading stretchers, which eliminates the manual lifting of patients into the rigs.