Orange County Fire Authority v. Superior Court CA4
An ambulance service and a county fire authority became embroiled in a dispute about the terms of a 2004 contract – actually a number of contracts made with various cities serviced by the authority. The county fire authority believed the contracts required the ambulance service to dedicate a certain number of ambulances to each city in the county who had contracts with the service. The ambulance service, on the other hand, believed that the contracts allowed it to use a “fluid deployment approach” which meant ambulances could circulate among several cities. The difference was that under the service’s interpretation it didn’t have to deploy as many ambulances as it had to under the fire authority’s interpretation. (See Medix Ambulance Service v. Orange County Fire Authority, Inc. (May 25, 2010, G042031) [nonpub. opn.] at p. 2 (Medix I).)
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