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Resident urges commissioners to prioritize EMS staffing and ambulances after citing long waits and heavy call volume
Summary
A Forsyth County resident told commissioners the county's emergency medical services face staffing shortages, a 20-minute average ambulance wait and an undersized fleet; the board approved ambulance and equipment purchases later in the meeting.
Valerie Brockenbrough, a Forsyth County resident, used the public comment period at the Feb. 27 Forsyth County Board of Commissioners meeting to urge the board to make emergency medical services a top priority.
Brockenbrough told commissioners she is concerned about what she described as understaffing and long response times in the county's EMS system. She said Forsyth County receives about 67,000 calls a year and that the county's reported average ambulance wait time is 20…
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