It looks like EMSA will continue to provide the ambulance service for the Tulsa area, and not the Tulsa Fire Department.
After reviewing proposals and meeting with area mayors, Mayor Dewey Bartlett made the announcement Friday afternoon.
City leaders received proposals from EMSA and TFD.
Mayor Bartlett says, “After consultation with all parties concerned, including the Mayors and/or City Managers of Jenks, Bixby, Sand Springs, and Oklahoma City, I have decided that our current system has performed extremely well and I do not support a change at this time. I would like to see EMSA and TFD sit down together in the future and work on the many aspects of ways to improve our emergency medical services.”
Bartlett says part of the reason for his decision is a survey showing 81 percent satisfaction in all nine districts that EMSA covers.
Chris Stevens, with EMSA, tells KRMG, "The system design has worked very well. The KPMG study just came out and showed a huge vote of confidence for EMSA and the way we run the system."
Hear reaction from the Tulsa Fire Department by clicking the link below.