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Fire battalion chief: new ambulance staffing improves response times, officials warn tax-increment financing can divert levy revenue
Summary
Clark County fire officials said a new ambulance contract provides paramedic staffing on rigs and has reduced response times; battalion chief and station staff also warned that tax increment financing (TIF) arrangements can divert property‑tax growth — including fire and EMS levies — from fire districts.
Battalion Chief Abe Rommel, representing Clark County fire resources and the Fairgrounds-area station, told the neighborhood association that a recent ambulance contract increased paramedic coverage on county rigs and has reduced response times on high‑priority calls.
“We actually went to go to the people and said, hey. We need an EMS lehi, which now has paramedics on all our rigs as well as we staff an ambulance, that on the high priority calls so that…
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