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Mitchell chief outlines ambulance-district model as option for Yankton County amid rising EMS demand
Summary
Dan Polarize, Mitchell chief of fire and EMS, described how a voter-approved ambulance district funded hiring and preserved city operations; Yankton County commissioners heard the presentation and a Sage Project Consultants representative offered grant-funded data analysis to explore local options.
Dan Polarize, chief of fire and EMS for the City of Mitchell, told the Yankton County Commission on June 17 that Mitchell’s recent move to an ambulance district was driven by surging call volume and persistent financial losses in EMS operations. “From 2014 to 2024, our unit responses had increased 44%,” Polarize said, and he described a funding package that would raise about $700,000 to hire six staffers to stabilize coverage.
Polarize said the district election he described won overwhelming voter support—“about 95% of the people said…
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