The City of Lynn has renewed its contract to provide ambulance coverage with Atlantic Ambulance. The Peabody based company is a division of the EMS powerhouse Cataldo Ambulance and provides ambulances to surrounding cities including Saugus, Peabody, Salem, Marblehead, and Nahant.
Based on the contract, Atlantic will provide 1 ALS and 3 BLS dedicated ambulances to the city to supplement the fire departments own ALS ambulance. As they have been units will be dispatched on Atlantic 1(151.9100 DPL 311) and will sign on with Lynn Fire (154.4150 PL 74.4)when en route. Atlantic also maintains a simplex channel “Atlantic 3″ (155.1600 DPL 263) and a repeater “Atlantic 5″ (155.3250 DPL 132) for the ambulances. Trucks will be housed at Atlantic’s bases on High St and North Franklin St.
