“Many rural communities in Vermont and around the region rely on their local emergency medical responders, but there’s a dearth of qualified individuals and training opportunities,” according to the head of Rescue Inc.’s new Vermont EMS Academy.
The local selectboard, voting Tuesday for municipal staff raises of up to 10%, has spent the last of a projected surplus less than a week into the takeover.
“This is a manufactured crisis,” one cardiac-arrest survivor said of the ambulance change set for July 1. “I have a sense of foreboding that our elected officers have chosen to gamble with people’s lives.”
Vermont ambulance officials are continuing to voice questions as the town approaches the July 1 end of its nearly 60-year contract with Windham County’s largest emergency medical service provider.
The town Selectboard is set to consider a $50,000 addendum just two weeks before it is scheduled to drop its 56-year contract with Windham County’s largest emergency medical service provider.
Vermont will join the rest of the U.S. in launching 988 as an emergency phone number for mental health distress and crises. The number is scheduled to become active and accessible July 16.
“Everything’s backwards here,” one resident said upon the Selectboard’s abrupt dismissal of Rescue Inc. “Study should come first. Public input should come first.”
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The tenant alleged Burlington violated his rights by tracking his 911 calls and encouraging his landlord to evict him if calls from the building did not decrease.
Police Chief Brandon del Pozo supports the plan, while some dispatchers have objections. Voters also will be asked a nonbinding question about the age for buying tobacco.
Gov. Chris Sununu is taking a harder line publicly than his Vermont counterpart on reviewing a national telecom program before deciding whether to participate.
Gov. Phil Scott is to decide by late December whether Vermont should join a national agreement on public safety communications, or opt out and find its own vendor.
The Select Board had been open to including a lower amount in its budget, but the squad decided to press ahead with the separate $207,059 request made by citizen petition.
The training exercise envisions an outbreak in which thousands of Vermonters are infected and hundreds are dead or dying while hospitals are overwhelmed and medical supplies need to be distributed across the state.
