The National Fire Protection Association will meet this autumn to continue its work on developing ambulance standards for specifying and purchasing, said Larry Stewart, fire service specialist in the NFPA's public fire protection division. Stewart said the impetus for creating a standard was to set minimum requirements for ambulance safety and operation.
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"The NFPA took on writing a standard because firefighters knew there were national fire standards to apply to apparatus," Stewart said. "But they didn't apply to ambulances, which didn't need to meet the same level of performance as a fire engine."
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