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Two employees within the ambulance service tested positive recently, which has added additional pressure to their operations. Author: James Grant (12NewsNow), KBMT (12NewsNow) Published: 7/29/2021 6:32:00 PM Updated: 6:31 PM CDT July 29, 2021 BEAUMONT, Texas We continue to see COVID-19 cases on the rise in Southeast Texas, and the surge is putting an additional strain on local hospitals as well as ambulance services. Eddie Burleigh with the Acadian Ambulance service said they ve had to transport patients to hospitals in areas outside Southeast Texas. All of our facilities here are full and even Houston s getting full, and they re not accepting them, so we re transferring them further out than we normally do just to find places for these patients to get that higher level of care or to get a room, Burleigh said. ....