On Friday morning, 22 April 2011, at about 11:22 am, a serious two vehicle accident at Johnson Road and Route 173 (on the east side of Hebron) caused the Hebron Fire Department to request an ambulance from the Harvard Fire Protection District (HFPD) to the scene. The antiquated procedure of the HFPD is to tone out the entire department of 40 some members, in hopes someone will respond to handle mutual aid calls, while the on duty ambulance crew stays in the station. Despite paying for training and equipment for a large force, no one responded to handle the call and after six minutes, the Hebron Fire Department was told "better get someone else." Nine miles to the scene and the patient was to be transported back to Harvard Mercy Hospital. Like State Farm, HFPD are "good neighbors."
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