No, there wasn’t a bad accident at the State House today: All those ambulances are in the middle of Concord because of the hearing on two bills that concern them.

The bills – HB316 and HB725 – concern how much ambulance services get paid for calls. Representatives of several emergency services are slated to testify either for or against. As part of a show of force, many of them brought off-duty ambulances with them.

Details about the bills appeared in an earlier Monitor story.

David Brooks can be reached at dbrooks@cmonitor.com