GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -Imagine you’re in the back of an ambulance, one of the scariest moments of your life, and the truck breaks down. You have to wait for another ambulance to come pick you up and take you to the hospital. That was the reality for some patients and first responders in Alachua County, but now they’ve received brand new, state-of-the-art ambulances to continue serving the community in the best way they can.

ACFR EMS Chief Misty Woods tells TV20 they couldn’t have come at a better time.

“We have not received any new ambulances since pre-COVID,” Misty shared. “And before pre-COVID, we used to receive 16 new ambulances every year, so we’re about 16 ambulances behind right now.”

But now, they’re up 5.

“Just last week we broke down on the way to the hospital with a patie

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