Nerve gas antidote syringes could be carried by Lincs paramedics to help people in the event of a terrorist attack. The county's ambulance service has taken delivery of the pen-like devices, which can fit into a shirt pocket.
Ambulance service bosses are to decide whether to keep them in a central store or stock ambulances with them.
They said the government sponsored initiative was a "sensible precaution" against possible attacks.
Gordon Hiles, emergency planning officer for Lincolnshire Ambulance Service, said: "It's just been issued as a sensible precaution.
"It's the same as somebody might have a fire extinguisher in their office, so if anything did happen we would have some means of dealing with it.
"We are just awaiting guidance on how to use them properly and when we have got that we will decide how to issue them within our service."
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