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		<title>Cecil County Ambulances: County Asked to Takeover Some Services; Volunteer Fire Companies Object</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s Emergency Services director asked the County Commissioners Tuesday to shift some basic ambulance services away from volunteer fire companies to county employees, at a gross cost of over $5 million over a four year period. But the volunteers say they can provide the same services at a much lower cost to taxpayers. The proposal, which some volunteer fire/emergency companies say could spell a death knell for their community-based operations, comes during an election year. The county’s fire companies, and their members and supporters in local communities, represent a potent voting block. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of Emergency Services, proposed the hiring of a staff of 28 county employees, stationed at three areas in the county, and county government purchase of three new “basic” ambulances to address problems with response times to calls for emergency medical services. Brooks claimed that his agency could take over the services at no net increased cost to taxpayers because his department could begin, for the first time under state law, to collect fees from patients transported in existing county “advanced” paramedic ambulances, as well as in the new “basic” ambulances. He presented a spreadsheet to commissioners that did not tally total costs [&#8230;]]]></description>
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