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The Washington City Council approved items for the formation of an emergency medical services unit during their most recent meeting.
Following the council’s previous approval to submit an application to the Iowa Department of Public Health to authorize the unit, Fire Chief Brendan DeLong presented recommendations from the EMS study committee and purchase requests for the council’s approval, including that the service would likely consist of about 20 members, requiring that all members would have to receive Emergency Medical Responder training at a minimum, and that EMS volunteers be paid per-call in the same manner as firefighters, and at the same level of pay. The unit’s start-up equipment costs are about $7,526, which the city has already budgeted for. DeLong is also going to seek state and local bids to purchase a second crew cab pickup truck for additional EMS and firefighter transport, estimated to cost $40,000. City Administrator Brent Hinson says this purchase will be m
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The Washington City Council took a step toward establishing a city emergency medical services agency during their meeting Tuesday.
Mayor Jaron Rosien explained that the council formed an EMS study committee less than two years ago to examine the idea of establishing a first-responder unit under the fire department to supplement the county ambulance service. The committee’s work was somewhat delayed by the pandemic, but now City Administrator Brent Hinson says the city should be ready to start this service July 1st, “The way we have this envisioned this will be a new division within the fire department. There’ll be essentially an assistant fire chief for EMS that reports to the fire chief and is in charge of the operations of that division. Certainly it will be something that works hand in hand with our fire department and our ambulance service countywide, and I think that we’ve really come a long way and we’ve had a lot of good discussion.”
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