https://www.mass.gov/doc/ambulance-services-list-august-2021-pdf/download
3 are listed as "advanced" services - Becket Amb + Lenox Amb + Lunenburg FD
all others are listed as either paramedic or basic
totals - 311 ambulance services - with the following total number of
ambulances - 1,599 Class 1 - 6 Class 2 (all LifeLine) - 8 Class 4
(?helios?) - 233 Class 5 (non transport) - total of 1,891 vehicles
apparently no boat ambulances and no train ambulances and no plane ambulances
largest ambulance services (over approx 20 units)
Action 39 - plus Mass EMS 1
Alert - 20
AMR - 25
Armstrong - 45
Atlantic - 45 - maybe same as Cataldo
Boston City EMS - 47
Brewster - 168 - plus - EasCare - 33
Cataldo - 48
Community EMS - 17 - plus - Vital - 35 - plus - Marlboro / Hudson - 1
Fallon Amb - 54 - plus Fallon EMS - 19
MedStar Amb - 29 - MedStar EMS - 6
National - 25
Patriot - 16
PRIDEStar - 20
South Shore Hospital - 16
SouthCoast - 20
Trinity - 36
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biggest of the biggies
Brewster - 200
Cataldo / Atlantic - 90
Fallon - 70
Vital / Community / Marlboro Hudson - 52
Boston EMS - 47
Armstrong - 45
Action - 40
Trinity - 36
MedStar - 35
this can give a relative indication of comm center size and complexity
- however - some of these agencies handle far more 911 and emergency
calls than the others - some agencies handle mostly non emergency
calls - but all units have lights and sirens