Biloxi City Council approves Pafford Medical Services as new ambulance service

The Biloxi City Council voted today to approve a new ambulance service to serve the city.

The city approved Pafford Medical Services to be the new provider earlier this month, after a public bidding process.

Biloxi Fire Department has 168 firefighters and 10 stations across the city and responds to about 180 calls a week, with two-thirds of those being for medical emergencies, minor and major. Having a dedicated ambulance service will allow the department to work closely with EMS staff and create a system that can adapt over time, the city said in a press release.

Pafford EMS, with its Mississippi headquarters in the central part of the state, has been in service for more than 50 years with divisions in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Louisiana.

American Medical Response, or AMR, had had the contract for all of Harrison County prior to Biloxi creating its own district.