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                                Before the
                     Federal Communications Commission
                          Washington, D.C. 20554

In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
ACADIAN AMBULANCE SERVICES, INC.     )   File No.  CWD 97-26
                                     )
Petition for Reconsideration         )
                                     
                                     

                                  ORDER


   Adopted:  November 21, 1997                                          Released:  November 21, 1997

By Chief, Commercial Wireless Division:

      1.  On December 2, 1994, Acadian Ambulance Services, Inc. (Acadian), filed a petition for
reconsideration of the Narrowband Commercial Radio Branch's decision denying Acadian's request for
special temporary authority (STA) to transmit from 1899 Manhyde Road, Lake Charles, Louisiana.  In
its petition for reconsideration, Acadian argued that the STA was not needed to provide service in a new
service area, "but, to avoid loss and interruption of Acadian's essential communications services in the
already authorized Lake Charles area."  On October 1, 1997, Acadian requested dismissal of its petition
for reconsideration "due to the fact that the Commission granted the underlying application."  Since the
date of the request, the Commission has issued a license to Acadian for the above referenced site that
does not expire until March 29, 2005.  Following a review of the above-referenced filings, we find that
the matters raised in the petition are now moot.

   2.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, that, pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 405 of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i) and 405, authority delegated by Section 0.331 of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.331 and pursuant to Section 1.106 of the Commission's rules, 47
C.F.R.  1.106, the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Acadian Ambulance Services, Inc. on December
2, 1994, IS  HEREBY DISMISSED as moot. 

   FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 


   David L. Furth 
   Chief, Commercial Wireless Division
   Wireless Telecommunications Bureau