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Commissioners to revisit Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad funding after volunteers report ambulances failing
Summary
Commissioners heard that the Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad has experienced equipment failures and said staff should return May 21 with options; some commissioners proposed buying one ambulance as a stopgap while staff review rescue-tax allocations and revolving loan options.
St. Mary's County commissioners on May 14 discussed a funding shortfall reported by the Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad and asked staff to return with options at the next work session.
Commissioner Daniel L. Morris told colleagues that, over several years, accounting and allocation issues left the Hollywood squad short approximately $394,000 and that the squad currently had multiple ambulances in need of repair. Morris said one ambulance recently suffered a blown head gasket while carrying a patient and another experienced electronics failures.
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