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LAKE CITY â Missaukee County EMS is finding itself overextended by providing mutual aid ambulance services to Wexford County.
Mutual Aid services are commonly established to allow either county to help the other out when needed. Wexford County had an agreement with North Flight, now superseded by Mobile Medical Response (MMR) to provide ambulance services to that county.
However, the merger has not been without its hiccups, which Missaukee EMS director Aaron Sogge believes are due to a staffing shortage at MMR.
Missaukee EMS has been asked to cover calls at a rate that is no longer financially viable for the department, Sogge said. He said calls for Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support are routinely called off. When they are called off it results in non-billable calls and costs for Missaukee staff overtime, fuel, vehicle maintenance and other expenses.
IONIA — Precia Garland, the next city manager of Ionia, begins the job March 1.Ionia Interim City Manager Gregg Guetschow announced Garland’s start date during the Ionia City Council’s virtual meeting Tuesday, Feb. 2.The council selected Garland as Ionia city manager Jan. 16 after interviews with her and four other candidates.Garland is the administrator of Missaukee County in northern Michigan. A graduate of Saranac High School, Garland worked for 18 years in the city of