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By Benjamin Cox on May 5, 2021 at 5:28pm
The Winchester EMS will have to wait a bit longer on the verdict for a proposed service area for the county. The Scott County Commissioners did not take up a motion to create the service area at their meeting yesterday afternoon. Commissioner Weldon Fearneyhough made a motion to create the service area after a lengthy question and answer between representatives of the EMS, the Commissioners, and members of the public. Fearneyhough’s motion died for a lack of a second.
Winchester EMS volunteer Molly Taylor says that the service’s back is up against the wall both with finances and people: “It’s mostly our staffing issues. We have about 4 members that are currently going on calls. As of [Sunday], we had 3 calls basically at one time so all three of our rigs were out at the same time. Especially on a weekend like that, we just don’t have the staffing so we are at the point now where, the president of our EMS is lookin