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Resident urges Bay County to address emergency services closures and leadership after station shut‑downs cited
Summary
A Bay County resident told commissioners that frequent closures of advanced life support fire stations have degraded emergency services, cited a recent pediatric fatality and called for leadership change and accountability.
During the Oct. 7 meeting of the Bay County Board of County Commissioners, resident Robert Lavery of 1743 Oakcrest Drive in Sandhills urged the board to address what he described as a decline in Bay County Emergency Services following multiple station closures.
Lavery said two of the county’s four ALS (advanced life support) fire stations have been closed at times, naming the Sandhills station as closed “for nearly a month” and saying Bear Creek had closed intermittently. "These ALS…
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