New $ 10.7m Ambulance Station proposes for Sarnia Research Park

In New Ambulance Station Will Be Built at Sarnia’s Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, if Lambton County Council Backs the Project.

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The Research Park, Owned by the County’s Community Development Corporation, Already is Home to Lambton’s Emergency Medical Services Administration, Training and Community Programs.

Plans to build an estimated $ 10.7-million Ambulance Station and storage facility on vacant land at the park we Redeured by County COUNCIL RECENTLY TO 2025 Budget discussions, set for March 5.

The Move Follows Council’s Adoption in 2023 of an Ambulance Master Plan Calling for A New Station Near Highways 40 and 402 in Sarnia, and Shifting An Existing Station Near Bright’s Grove to Camlachie in the Future.

The Moves are expected to improvise times, included in bright’s grove where ambulances at the existent station near telfer and blackwell roads are regularly pulled into the city center to meet call demand.

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Ambulances Based at the Station Are Currently There Only About 20 to 30 Per Cent of the Time, Said Stephen Turner, The County’s Emergency Medical Services General Manager.

Sarnia’s George Street Ambulance Station Remains As is under the plan created to meet growing demand for ambulance service while better positioning stations to respond to calls.

Initially, The Plan Called for Building A New, Larger County Ambulance Headquarters, With A Station, Storage, Administration, Training and Community Programms Under One Roof, But that Would Cost $ 3 million more than the Current Plan, a County Report Said.

The Administration Offices we at the County’s MeadowView Villa Long-Term Care Home Near Petrolia, But the Service Didn’t Have Room to Train Its Roughly 160 Workers, or Enough Inside Storage for All Ambulances Carrying Gear and Sensitive to extreme temperatures.

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Currently, The Department Uses “Whatever Space We Can Find” for Training through The Year, so “We’re All Over the Place,” Turner Said.

Administration also was separated from Most Department Staff. “We have Daily Basis, I WOULDN’T GET TO See Any of the Operational Folks,” Making it a Challenge “To get a Sense of What was happening out there,” He Said.

“We Were Looking for Space. . . (and) one of the space that seemed to make a lot of sense was in the area of ​​(highways) 402 and 40,. . . Where the Research Park is Located, ”Turner Said.

The Park Had Space or Lease in Existing Buildings for Ambulance Administration, A Dedicated Training Area and Community Paramedicine and Community Health Integrated Health Team Programs.

Those Staff and Programs Already Have Moved Into Temporary Space At the Park While Their Permanent Home There is renovated for about 14 Department Staff and Managers.

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“It’s a lot more cost-effective,” Turner Said.

The proposed siter of the new station is next to the building where administration will be.

The New Station Would Have Space For As Many AS18 Vehicles, Including Ambulances for Three or Four Shifts of Paramedics, Spare Ambulances, Supervisor VEHICLES, AN EMERGENCY Support Unit and Community Support Program Vehicles. It also would have storage for medical Equipment and supplies.

Plans Call for Using $ 1 Million in Reserves and Borrowing the Rest To Cover Costs, With the Expectation that Half can be Recovered Over 40 Years Through Provincial Funding, The Report Said.

COUCIL ALSO REDED TO BUDGE A Request to Add Another 12 Hours a Day of Ambulance Service in Sarnia, As the Master Plan Recommended, at a cost of $ 600,000 in Year. Another $ 322,000 for a new Ambulance and Equipment WOULD COME FROM RESERVES, The Report Said.

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