Costly' photo shoot spotlights Pa. emergency services

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Costly' photo shoot spotlights Pa. emergency services

PITTSBURGH — Emergency medical service providers, many at least partly funded with public money, spent thousands of dollars combined to take part in an elaborate photo shoot at Pittsburgh International Airport involving two medical helicopters and nearly 10 percent of the region's ambulances.

Organizers say the photo taken last week was intended to showcase the region's variety of emergency services and equipment for National EMS Week, which ends Saturday.

Allegheny County Councilman Chuck McCullough said the photo on a taxiway shows how much traffic has fallen at the airport in recent years.

"There's so damn little airplane traffic, I guess they have to use those runways for something," McCullough said. "It's come to using the airport as a backdrop for photo shoots."

Sixty-six EMS vehicles — ambulances, special operations vehicles, two fire trucks, two helicopters and a motorcycle — assembled for the photo. The vehicles, valued at more than $15 million, based on conservative estimates from organizers and participants, came to Pittsburgh International from bases across a 10-county area in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Ah, good old muckrakers. What are you thinking? That all those vehciles were bought just for the shoot?
 
In case the picture is hard to find:

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