A new central EMS Station is in full operation on Seymour Street in North Bay. The facility which goes as far south as Whitney, as far north as Temagami, as far west as Sturgeon Falls and as far east as Mattawa was shown off in a media tour on Friday morning.
The new facility which is on leased land owned by Christian Fortin, consolidates the two other stations which were located in West Ferris (Ferris Drive) and at the old hospital site on Beatty Street.
"What it will do for the service in the district is it will be centralized so you are going to have a better distribution, everybody is in the same location as far as training is concerned, we will benefit from that," said Jean Guy Belzile, Nipissing EMS Manager.
"It's central to the highway, to highway 11 and 17 and it's also good on Wallace road to get to highway 63 to Thorne, Eldee and all those locations," said Belzile.