SEAL BEACH

Officials of Seal Beach and Sunset Beach hope to persuade their counterparts in Huntington Beach tonight not to scrap a deal covering mutual paramedic service to Sunset Beach.

Huntington Councilman Dave Sullivan proposed last month to end the agreement, by which Huntington paramedics respond when they are closer to an incident in Sunset Beach than county paramedics, and county paramedics in return respond to incidents in Huntington.

But Sullivan now says rather than scrap it, he just wants to address what he sees as an unfair deal. He notes that Huntington residents are charged a fee when they receive ambulance service, but Sunset Beach residents are not. Also, he argues, Huntington is providing a higher level of service to Sunset than it is receiving from the county.