Taxpayers in the LMRFD Should Receive Something for their $1,000,000

In the Lake Mohave Ranchos Fire District your property taxes pay for the firefighter paramedics, but if they do so much as take your blood pressure outside the fire station, you're going to get a bill for around $2500... Why

LMRFD Firefighter Paramedics Respond: Cost $2445.11

NACFD Firefighter Paramedics Respond: Cost ZERO

You are billed if private ambulance transports you...

In NACFD the Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District your property taxes pay for the firefighter's, EMT's, and paramedics who respond on fire and EMS calls. You never get a bill for their services. Your Cost When NACFD Firefighter Paramedic Respond to your home is ZERO.

If the NACFD paramedics give you a breathing treatment, it costs you nothing. When AMR Ambulance arrives you can tell them you're feeling better and don't want to go to the hospital, and pay nothing.

It's not the best idea and you will have to sign a release known as an AMA Against Medical Advice.Your total bill is ZERO, nothing. 

Your property taxes pay for those firefighter paramedics so you don't get a bill. 

Cost When LMRFD Firefighter Paramedic Respond and just take your blood pressure is $2500

Let's say you live in the LMRFD and you get short of breath. You call 911 and they send an engine with firefighter paramedics on the LMRFD ambulance. with paramedics. 

They know you from other calls and tell you they can give you a breathing treatment, but you have to get transported to the hospital. The cost is $1845.11 and $15.01 a mile or $600 from Dolan for a total of $2445.11 

From LMRFD Page
Ambulance Information

If you come to the fire station for a basic medical assessment, there is no charge. Please note however that we can not administer drugs or perform other invasive treatments without transporting you to the hospital for physician evaluation. Unfortunately, this means that you can not come to the station for a breathing treatment because you ran out or have not been able to refill your prescription! We are not licensed to operate as a walk in/walk out clinic, and our continued ability to provide life saving services to this community is dependant on following ADHS and DEA rules and regulations.

With that said, we care about our residents, and please do not hesitate to allow us to help you in your times of medical emergencies!

NOTE: There is no charge for coming into the station to get checked out, whatever your medical problem may be.