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bkibler@altoonamirror.com The Bedford County 911 Center on Thursday reversed a controversial change it made four months ago by restoring a five-minute interval for ambulance services to commit to answering emergency calls. Four months ago, the center reduced the time it gave ambulance services to muster a crew to about 2.5 minutes, because of increasingly long and increasingly frequent delays before patients received help, especially after COVID-19 mushroomed in Bedford County, according to officials. But all seven volunteer ambulance services in the county objected that the shorter interval was inadequate, which, coupled with easing of the COVID-19 outbreak, led to a recent compromise agreement to bring back the five minutes for the first service called although reduced times remain for secondary services, while paging responsibilities for the 911 Center have shrunk.

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