§ 210-10. Emergency services.  


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  • Refer to Chapter 196, Emergency Services, Article I, Charges and Payment.
    A. 
    Ambulance service fees. (§ 196-4)
    (1) 
    Ambulance transportation to a medical facility: $700.
    (2) 
    Per loaded mile for basic life support (BLS): $14.
    (3) 
    Fee for oxygen administration: $75.
    (4) 
    Fee for automatic external defibrillator (AED) pads: $150.
    (5) 
    Fee for epinephrine injector (Epi-Pen): $100.
    (6) 
    Fee for cervical collars: $25.
    (7) 
    Fee for spinal immobilization: $150.
    B. 
    Motor vehicle accident (MVA) incidentals: batteries, fluids, stabilization: $300. Operations such as stabilizing a vehicle, use of hand tools, hazard control, and other scene-related light rescue operations. (§ 196-4)
    C. 
    Motor vehicle accident (MVA) incidentals: $1,000. Operations include the use of power tools and hydraulic rescue tools to perform activities such as opening or removing doors to provide access to patients as well as stabilizing vehicles and performing hazardous assessments. (§ 196-4)
    D. 
    Heavy MVA incidentals: $1,500. Operations include any technical rescue procedures, including but not limited to water and ice rescue, rope rescue, confined space rescue, high-angle rescue, trench rescue, or structural collapse rescue. Also includes motor vehicle rescues that include the use of power tools and hydraulic tools to perform operations such as partial or full roof removal, front/dash displacement, third door access, and separating vehicles from one another for the purpose of rescue. (§ 196-4)
    E. 
    Malicious fire alarms: $500. A malicious fire alarm is defined as any false alarm that is transmitted by an alarm system due to improper operation, poor maintenance, or malfunction of the alarm system. Alarms will be defined as malicious after the receipt of the fourth false alarm within any one-hundred-eighty-day period. (§ 196-4)