EDMONTON -- In a defiant move against the province, Wood Buffalo council voted unanimously Tuesday night to no longer transfer 911 calls from its communications centre to the Alberta Health Services (AHS) provincial dispatch centre. “This should come as no surprise to AHS,” Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott said during a video conference Wednesday morning. “We have been telling them for seven months that if they went through with the transition that they proposed that there would be a reduction in service that would put our residents health at risk.” Last summer AHS announced it would end local dispatch of Emergency Medical Services in four Alberta cities, including Wood Buffalo, to consolidate them into a central dispatch system.