Mesa Fire and Medical Department and Superstition Fire and Medical District, which covers Apache Junction and Gold Canyon, are finalizing an agreement to provide back-up ambulance services across certificate of necessity boundaries.
Authorizing the Mesa city manager to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with SFMD was approved unanimously by the Mesa City Council in a May 3 consent agenda with other items, with District 5 Councilman David Luna and District 6 Councilman Kevin Thompson attending by phone.
“Superstition and Mesa are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to provide ALS and BLS ambulance services in each other’s [certificate of necessity] areas, as requested by the other party, to cover responses during times of peak overload, simultaneous emergencies, major emergencies when resources are otherwise overtaxed,” the agreement states of advanced life support and basic life support.
