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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