(LaPorte, IN) - The new LaPorte ambulance base is now in use. Andrew McGuire, director of LaPorte County Emergency Medical Service, told the county commissioners today the move took about three days was finished on Friday.

McGuire said there’s still some work to do yet before everything is completed. He was hoping to have a traditional open house of the new facility but a video showing off the new station will likely happen now at some point due to COVID-19.

The new facility is just a few hundred feet from old ambulance base at State and Tyler St. The former EMS station was abandoned to make way for construction of the new LaPorte Hospital.