Leland gets new ambulance

Leland Township Fire & Rescue celebrated as its a new customized ambulance arrived last week and is expected to be in service by the first week of March.

The lengthy process to acquire a new ambulance took months of planning as manufacturers were backlogged ever since COVID, according to Leland Township Fire & Rescue Chief Dan Besson.

“It was taking about a year (to get an ambulance before COVID) now it’s like three to four years,” he said. “We wanted one (custom) built with patient and paramedic safety in mind.”