Ambulance station

[1] They have space for storing and maintaining medical equipment, and sometimes a fuel pump.

It varies as to whether crews routinely wait at the station itself for call-outs (as full-time firefighters do).

In other emergency medical services, ambulance stations are centralized hubs where crews start and end their shifts, but they usually drive to "standby points" to await call-outs.

This arrangement is common in independent ambulance services and is also used in the New York City Fire Department.

[2][3] Since the 1990s, there has been a trend in the United Kingdom to reduce the number of ambulance stations and rely on standby points to keep all areas covered.