EMS services are getting consolidated in neighbouring parts of the region.
City council voted in favour of combining ambulance bases for Superior North EMS for North Shore and Greenstone communities.
It’s all part of a 10-year master plan, as it’s intended for resources to be distributed across the district amid severe staffing shortages, rising call volumes and other growing and costly obstacles.
Beardmore will keep a paramedic and non-ambulance vehicle for their community medicine set-up.
Bases will then be located in Geraldton and Nipigon, which are an hour away respectively.