Mount Hope Takes 1st Step to Create Local Ambulance District

The Mount Hope town board in New York voted on Sept. 3 to jumpstart the process of creating an ambulance district aimed at cutting medical emergency response times for town residents. Town Supervisor Paul Rickard told The Epoch Times that he has received an increasing number of calls from residents about long waits for ambulances. Just last month, he said, the county’s 911 center dispatched ambulances from four neighboring municipalities at different times to assist the town. Many municipalities in the state of New York are facing a similar shortage of ambulance services and are experimenting with new governmental roles to fill the gap, according to a March report by the state Comptroller’s Office....