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Show Ambulance Assoc. wants Paramedic program Mayor David Holdaway said that the Ambulance Association is a tremendous service to the community, commun-ity, along with the Fire Dept., and it is all volunteer. The mayor indicated that the city leaders would be in favor of a paramedic para-medic program. The Aassociation officers stated that the plan would formally be presented to the city for the next budget year. Mark Gibbons, Ann Topham and Dave Vickers told the Pleasant Grove City Council last Tuesday night that the Ambulance Association Associa-tion would like to begin a paramedic para-medic program in the near future. The Association officials said they would like to have four of the EMT's take the training which includes in-cludes a three month school at Weber We-ber State College. The benefit of such training to the community would include more life support treatment, making an airway, and giving more medications. medica-tions. The officers felt that the training could be financed with grants from the state. The impact on the city would be having some of the city employees who are EMT's out of town for the training period. Association officials also explained ex-plained that they had received a $3,200 grant from the state this year. They had spent about $1,500 of it to replace equipment they had borrowed from the backup ambulance ambu-lance to put on the Rescue Truck. The remainder of the grant will probably be used for training as the association likes to stay as up to date as possible. They reported that the Association Associa-tion had made 400 runs this year with the Ambulances and Rescue Truck. Eighty per cent of the calls are in the daytime and most of them are on weekdays. Association president, Mark Gibbons, Gib-bons, said that nearly all of the trained EMT's in Pleasant Grove stay with the program for several years. |
