Residents of East Liverpool should soon be seeing reduced response times for Emergency Medical Services provided by the city's fire department.

A new remounted ambulance was delivered to East Liverpool last night and will begin use by January, allowing EMS officials to reduce response and wait times when timing is critical.

East Liverpool Fire Chief Antony Cumo said the latest addition is actually their previous ambulance, which has been remounted, meaning the box was removed from the chassis and mounted onto a new vehicle, and it is now rewired, with new lights, cabinets and a new floor.

The previous ambulance was a 2001 model purchased by the city in 2018 and had 100,000+ miles.

When the city purchased a new ambulance in 2023 with grant funding, the previous ambulance was placed on a

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