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Snow Creek residents and volunteers press supervisors over EMS staffing; chief says county is filling positions
Summary
Captain of Snow Creek Rescue and local residents said recent reassignments of career personnel have reduced local EMS coverage and urged the board to investigate; the county chief said hiring is under way and the agency has made progress but multiple stations remain short of career staffing.
Residents, volunteer rescue personnel and county leaders clashed at the meeting over staffing at the Snow Creek rescue station after volunteers said career personnel previously assigned to the station were reassigned without notice.
Timmy Law, who identified himself as a Snow Creek Rescue Squad volunteer and captain, said changes left the community with longer response times and that Snow Creek’s volunteers and residents feel “disregarded.” “We are not going to stop until this wrong is made right,” Law told supervisors during public comment.
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