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Curt Morimoto, operations manager for American Medical Response, stands outside the 911 ambulance provider’s Kahului headquarters last month. The Maui News / LILA FUJIMOTO photo

KAHULUI — After 45 years of working in emergency medical services, Curt Morimoto is calling it a career.

He is retiring as operations manager for American Medical Response, ending a job path that took him from Hilo to Seattle, then Honolulu, before he moved to Maui in 1984.

He worked as a paramedic on Maui for 10 years before becoming operations manager, or Maui County EMS chief, in 1994 when the company took over emergency medical services operations in the county under a state Department of Health 911 EMS contract…