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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Will Rodeo Start This Weekend Without Ambulance?

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah.  June 4, 2014. Jake Willis is presenting a rodeo every weekend in Garden City and needs an ambulance there to fulfill Garden City’s requirement to conduct a private rodeo.  Kim Wilson and Mike Downing. EMT Association,  addressed the ambulance issues. The issue is that they cannot provide private ambulance service to a business on a regular basis with their volunteers.   
“The EMT are all volunteers, we cannot commit that there will be an ambulance,” said Downing.  Willis said he would bring something else in but he has not been able to.  He is offering EMT who will stay at the rodeo free tickets for themselves and their families.  But Downing said as they are volunteers and have jobs it might not be possible to staff every rodeo three times a week during the summer, plus deal with accidents that happen at the same time in the rest of the county.
 An EMT coming from another county would be considered a Basic.  It is not sure whether that would fulfill their legal requirements. “ Is a basic EMT going to be able to triage?” Downing asked, “who has the liability?  Will they pay the EMT?”   Idaho EMT cannot serve under the Utah license.  During this busy time all ambulances could be out of the county.
 Commissioner Bill Cox said “as a private function and business it is a different thing.”  Tom Weston said that Willis needs to have someone he contracts with.  Norm Weston said he could hire an EMT who is not involved with the Rich County EMT Association, so the county has no liability.  They will talk to the county attorney.  If they do use the Rich County Ambulance used they would have to pay the same fee as other events which is $500 plus $150 per hour.

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