ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A new ambulance contract in DeKalb County is seeking to add units and cut response time.

The $15 million a year contract would extend one already in place between DeKalb County and ambulance provider American Medical Response or AMR.

An Atlanta News First investigation in February revealed AMR’s response time had climbed from 16 minutes in 2020 to 21 minutes earlier this year.

DeKalb County Fire and Rescue Chief Darnell Fullum says they’re already improved on that.

“Time matters when it matters and we want to make sure we are there when it matters,” said Fullum. “We’ve seen response calls going down and the system improved on how we triage calls.”

The contract will add even more ambulances and will use dynamic posting.

“So those units will be place

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