Almost two years after the city stopped its ambulance service, Lockport’s two ambulances were auctioned off last week – even though a grievance over the elimination of the service has yet to be resolved.
The ambulances were among a long list of surplus city equipment offered for sale in an online sale through Auctions International. The city also sold a paving machine, a pavement crack-sealing machine, and an assortment of mowers, snowplow blades and vehicles, some dating back from the 1980s or ’90s.
The ambulances both were 2008 models with about 65,000 miles on them. One sold for $11,301 and the other for $11,601 in bidding that began May 20 and ended last Monday.
Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey said that both ambulances were purchased by the same bidder. The mayor said Highways and Parks Director Michael E. Hoffman told her that the buyer was from downstate, but she wasn’t sure whether it was a municipality, a fire company or an ambulance company. Bids on Auctions International are under anonymous names.