Volunteer crews in crisis? State: Yes, Blaine County: Maybe
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Steve Edwards
Some Blaine County ambulance crew members say a motivation to stay involved is the "feeling of camaraderie and getting to know fellow volunteers." This group of Chinook ambulance volunteers was fighting a mosquito net shelter, in a stiff wind, during the annual Relay for Life event.
Reporter's note: Louise Nissen, a member of the Blaine III ambulance crew in Harlem, shared a newspaper clipping about a Montana legislative study committee looking at the status of emergency ambulance service in Montana. Jim DeTienne, EMS and trauma systems section supervisor for Montana's Department of Health and Human Services told the committee, "It (the EMS system) is very fractured. It is very troubled. It is not going to sustain the same way we've built it in the last 30 years for much longer." Much of the problem, the DPHHS official said, had to do with aging EMS volunteers and a l...
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