TAYSIDE Fire and Rescue and the Scottish Ambulance Service in Montrose have joined forces to share accommodation in the newly renamed Montrose Fire and Ambulance Station.
This partnership follows months of careful planning and collaboration to convert the Fire Station, which will now also house the ambulance and the crew. The former Ambulance Station in Warrack Terrace required a significant amount of renovation and f
inancial investment to bring it up to an acceptable standard and the partnership with Tayside Fire and Rescue has provided an ideal solution to this predicament.
Both organisations have a long history of working together, having shared premises in Perth and Kingsway East, Dundee in the past.
The Fire Station has been modified internally and externally, with the addition of portable accommodation units to extend the station and provide office, storage and hygiene facilities for the ambulance crews.
The Montrose fire and ambulance crews are accustomed to working together at emergency incidents and see this partnership helping to provide the highest standard of emergency services to the communities of Montrose and the wider Angus area.
Tayside Fire and Rescue Station Manager, Mark Crush, said that he was delighted to see both organisations working together to provide safer, stronger and healthier communities.
He said: "In today's economic climate it is important to make the best use of the funding we receive, whilst finding new and innovative ways to provide the same services for less. I believe this is a significant step in the right direction."
Steven Robertson, Area Service Manager for the Scottish Ambulance Service in Angus, said: "This is a great example of both services working together to provide the best practical solution in the community. Firefighters and ambulance crews will both benefit from the closer working arrangements – which means even better outcomes for the patients that we serve."
