Streator signing tentative agreement for ambulance service with Reading Fire Protection District

A tentative agreement will bring ambulance services to the Reading Township. The city of Streator had asked the Reading Township Fire Department to pay $115,000 a year. But the department said they could only pay $25,000 a year. City Manager David Plyman says the department will pay the $25,000 this year and pay another $25,000 in the spring. He says the fire protection district is looking to do a referendum that would create a tax levy. A formal agreement is still being created and will have to be approved by the city of Streator and the fire protection district. Plyman says that Streator ambulance service will take over for the private company AMT at eight am this Saturday. They two ambulances, one they bought from Ottawa and another they are borrowing from Pontiac a little while. A third ambulance should be coming by November.