By Douglass Dowty

syracuse.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — AMR has promised to report monthly response times and staffing data as part of Syracuse’s first-ever ambulance contract approved Tuesday by the Common Council.

For the first time, Syracuse city officials will receive monthly performance metrics from AMR, a private ambulance corps that, with its corporate predecessors, has covered the city for decades.

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City taxpayers won’t pay AMR to be their primary ambulance service. But the agreement, and the ability to look more closely at AMR’s operations, should help the fire department use its own ambulance only when necessary, fire officials said.

AMR has 300 staff and 32 ambulances responding to roughly 140 daily ca

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