05/28/2025 | Press release | Archived content
As we move toward the 2025 hurricane season, the City of Key West's Transit Department is poised to provide added emergency services. The new Ambubus kit allows a bus to be converted quickly into a patient transport.
Key West Transit has always been on the front line when a storm threatens, providing safe transport for evacuees. This kit will help augment Key West Fire and Rescue in cases of mass tragedy or evacuation of patients from the hospital or nursing homes.
Representatives of First Line Tech came to Key West, training first responders the setup of the conversion kit. This technology will quickly retrofit the City's smaller "cutaway" buses into transport for non-ambulatory patients.