Posted July 30, 2015 Envision Healthcare Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Rural/Metro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 30, 2015 Envsion Health Care want's nothing to due with fire protection Rumored to happen asap Scottsdale will take over Fountain Hills & Carefree Santan Valley will be split up between Queen Creek & Florence Daisy Mountain will take over Cave Creek Glendale will take over West County (they already were planning stations 1510 &1511 and were going to try to annex the area ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 30, 2015 From the press release... “This acquisition will broaden our ability to partner with fire departments and local government leadership to build increasingly better community health models. It also gives us the ability to offer specialty fire capabilities within our industrial health and safety business lines.” Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 31, 2015 What will happen to all the apparatus? Will the takeover cities absorb them or will RM take them to Tucson and Yuma? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 31, 2015 I Would assume they will sell or auction the equipment, Fountain Hills, Rio Verde own there equipment most of RM's apparatus would be unfit for front line service Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 1, 2015 Sounds like rumor and speculation by Gilbertfire I wonder his qualifications to deem a fleet of apparatus unfit? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) it's not rumors or speculation, Go read the city's, town and Fire districts agenda's and meeting minutes look at the town & cities CIP's It is all there Edited August 1, 2015 by GilbertFIRE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) Re: Apparatus I have 10 years firefighting experience and I did spec's on several new apparatus, As general rule, a pumper's life is 15 years or 100,000 miles 7 to 10 years front line, & 5 to 8 years reserve, most of RM apparatus is well over 15 years old and I'm sure the millage's are up there Edited August 1, 2015 by GilbertFIRE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 2, 2015 Nothing changing for 90 days, then discussions will begin about consolidating operations.. There is nothing official about the fire end. The fact of the matter about Rural metro fire operations in places like Yuma is all outside Cities, or fire districts. Cities may choose to terminate their contracts, but as far as the county areas, there is n such thing as a county fire dept. in ARS, fire districts cannot have discontinuous boundaries(ie Islands) outside Maricopa county. In terms of jurisdictions, Rural metro operates in "no mans land". A city would have to annex, and could not do that immediately, a fire district formation is subject to a vote of the property holders, and existing districts could not just Annex properties outside their boundaries. As far as the contracts, that is another story, most if not all allow either side to terminate with some notice like 90 days to a year. More than likely if Envision wants nothing to do with fire protection, they likely would not change anything for about a year. Any sooner would subject Envision and or Rural to lawsuits that would hold up any merger. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) San Tan Valley is too small to have 4 different fire departments covering Queen Creek Florence North San Tan Valley Fire District San Tan Valley Fire District It will be interesting to see if the board will allow them to start fire districts because about 3/4's of San Tan Valley is in Queen Creek & Florence growth areas. Edited August 3, 2015 by GilbertFIRE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites