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Commissioners discuss paramedic shortages, ambulance response and recent overdose deaths
2521294 · March 6, 2025
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Summary
Board members raised concerns about local paramedic shortages, ambulance service-area staffing and four recent overdose deaths tied largely to fentanyl; no formal action taken.
Commissioners spent part of the March 6 session discussing public-safety challenges, including a local shortage of paramedics, ambulance staffing concerns and recent overdose deaths.
Commissioner Starett raised the county's shortfall of EMS personnel and linked that shortage to discussion supporting House Bill 3552. "We have a deficit of paramedics, not only statewide, but in this…
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