As the Morongo Basin becomes more popular as a place to live and visit, it makes sense that emergencies would be more frequent. Craig Bell,, the Operations Chief of Morongo Basin Ambulance, spoke about which areas of our community have the most medical emergencies while he was a guest on the Z1077 Up Close Show.
Morongo Basin Ambulance is a non-profit corporation that provides emergency ambulance services from Morongo Valley to Johnson Valley to Amboy, excluding Yucca Valley. Here’s Chief Bell.
“We’re happy to have the community members that we work with in the communities that we serve.
“Beyond our Joshua Tree headquarters, we have an ambulance staged in the Indian Cove neighborhood of Twentynine Palms.
“We don’t have an ambulance staged on the west end. It’s a farther area, and it is very rural. We have a higher time response standard that we are allowing to get down there. We don’t have anyone staged there because it is a rural community. It’s the same reason why we don’t have anyone staged in Amboy. There’s not very many calls that actually happen in Amboy.
“It’s the same for Morongo Valley. There’s maybe one call every day or two, which is a smaller number, especially when compared to Joshua Tree, where we have eight to ten calls a day. Same numbers in Twentynine Palms. They are our busier areas.
You can hear their full conversation by listening to the Z1077 Up Close Show as a podcast on Z1077fm.com or wherever you get your podcasts. The Z1077 Up Close Show airs every Friday at 10 a.m
