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The Fort Dodge Fire Department will assume responsibility for the ambulance service now provided by UnityPoint Health – Trinity Regional Medical Center in a transition that hospital and city officials say will provide outstanding care in a financially sustainable way.

The change will become effective July 1, city and hospital leaders announced Monday.

The Fire Department ambulances will serve Fort Dodge and all of the surrounding areas including Barnum, Coalville, Moorland and Otho.

They will also help units such as the Southwest Webster Emergency Medical Service in Gowrie whenever those units have a critically ill or injured patient who requires advanced life support.