Ambulance - Reuse of Retired Ambulances

Reuse of Retired Ambulances

When an ambulance is retired, it may be donated or sold to another EMS provider. Alternately, it may be adapted into a storage and transport vehicle for crime scene identification equipment, a command post at community events, or support vehicle, such as a logistics unit. While others are refurbished and resold or may just have their emergency equipment removed to be sold to private businesses or individuals who then can use them as small recreational vehicles.

Toronto’s City Council has begun a “Caravan of Hope” project to provide retired Toronto ambulances a second life by donating them to the people of El Salvador. Since the Province of Ontario requires that ambulances be retired after just four and a half years in service in Ontario, the City of Toronto decommissions and auctions 28 ambulances each year.