By Cameron Levasseur

Bangor Daily News

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine — An Aroostook County ambulance service is now able to provide better care thanks to a new ambulance worth more than $450,000 it purchased with federal grant funding.

Central Aroostook Ambulance Service, which services the towns of Mars Hill, Blaine and Bridgewater, put the ambulance on the road late this summer. It’s taller, wider and longer than the other two ambulances in its fleet, and expands the equipment available to the relatively new ambulance service, which was founded in 2020.

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“It’s a Cadillac to the ambulances,” Central Aroostook Ambulance manager Lee Farley said. “It’s the largest box you can get for an ambulance. It’s basically a one-ton chassis.”

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