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TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse City Fire Department will become the city’s primary ambulance service, voters said Tuesday.

Faster response times, better experiences and outcomes for patients and their families, and superior fire safety services community-wide: These are a fe...

TRAVERSE CITY — It’s not unusual for two ambulances to respond to an emergency call in Traverse City.

TRAVERSE CITY —Long before Traverse City officials opted to pull out of a 20-year-old agreement to provide aircraft rescue and firefighting services at the Cherry Capital Airport, union members had

9 & 10 News July 22, 2021 All week, they have been taking open diving classes. Traverse City firefighters say learning to handle scuba equipment is much like using the equipment they wear for extreme smoke. “Our air packs that we use allow us to breathe through smoke,” said Firefighter and Paramedic Jacob Steichen. “Now we’re using air packs that let us breathe through the water. So it’s kind of the same but a little different.” Over the last week they have had a crew learning to drive more than 30 feet into Lake Michigan. Steichen says, “We are only capable of swimming down so...