Imagine this service covers 3000 square miles, including one of the most popular tourist spots in the state and country and one of the most dangerous roads to ever be imagined. Imagine a population increase comparable to a city of 100,000 in just two years with exponentially increasing criticality and volume of calls. Presidio EMS, Presidio Texas, lying 60 miles west of Big Bend National Park. Because this is where their families have lived for generations. They have run calls on family dying of heart attacks, trauma sustained in MVA's and countless other causes.
Grants provide the new rigs and equipment, but there is no such animal for salary support.
Vehicle repairs are made by the medics to save money. With the Medicare cuts and lack of insured populace, the service is foundering and hard. If is goes under,it will cause a domino effect to the surrounding areas. These people are my family, as much as any blood relative I have. I know they can't take much more.