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Land Cleared for New $10M Cetronia Ambulance and Forensics Center
Construction continues on Cetronia Ambulance and Lehigh County Joint Operations and Medico-Legal Forensics Center.
Construction crews have been busy clearing land to build the future home of Cetronia Ambulance and a new Lehigh County forensics center near the Lehigh County Sports Fields in South Whitehall Township.
Work on the $10 million project has continued since the groundbreaking last February to build the 68,000-square-foot building, formally known as the Cetronia Ambulance and Lehigh County Joint Operations and Medico-Legal Forensics Center. The center will house the Cetronia Ambulance’s fleet, a regional education center, and the coroner's office.
A section of the facility will house and provide security for Cetronia Ambulance’s fleet and Lehigh County’s emergency vehicles and equipment. Cetronia Ambulance’s fleet includes 19 ambulances, 12 paratransit trucks, a supervisor’s vehicle, a medi-car and a fire rehab unit.
A second section will provide a regional educational center, offering community public health training programs to both the public and private sectors.
The Lehigh County coroner's office and staff will be housed in the building. The communications center, at Broadway and Parkway roads, will bear the name of John E. Walson, the former head of Service Electric whose family donated $275,000 towards the project.Find out what's happening in South Whitehallwith free, real-time updates from Patch.
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