Quick Facts

• Life Line Ambulance was founded in 1956 and affiliated with a funeral home. The company used a converted hearse as an ambulance.
   
• Life Line is the largest privately owned ambulance company in Northern Arizona.
   
• The company currently employs a staff of approximately 225, including paramedics, intermediate and basic emergency medical technicians, emergency medical dispatchers and registered nurses, along with human resource, customer service, vehicle maintenance and billing personnel.
   
• Life Line has 22 ambulances, including a Critical Care Unit. The company also deploys two specially built and equipped mountain bikes at large, crowded events where ambulance access is difficult.
   
• Life Line Ambulance serves more than 9,000 square miles, an area larger than New Jersey, from 11 strategically placed stations
   
• The service area contains primarily rural, mountainous countryside with low population densities. There are also urban centers within the service territory. These are: Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley and Wickenburg.
   
• Life Line provides services in three counties: parts of Yavapai, Coconino and Maricopa.
   
• The company utilizes the latest in dispatch technology, including automated vehicle location (AVL) and geographic informational system (GIS). Life Line also employs a full-time GIS mapping specialist who constantly updates the system’s maps to provide the newest information for the entire service area.
   
• Life Line Ambulance is an American Heart Association Certified Training Center. In this role, the company offers CPR and first aid classes to the community in general and to health care providers specifically from its facilities in Prescott, Prescott Valley and Wickenburg.
   
• The company and its team members are dedicated to supporting the communities in which they live and work. Life Line has provided as-available, stand-by ambulance services to numerous nonprofit events, such as Wickenburg Gold Rush Days, Williams’ Thomas the Tank Engine Days Out and Prescott YMCA’s Whiskey Row Marathon. Life Line team members volunteer for career days, emergency drills and charity walks, among many other activities.