Silverton EMS faces personnel crisis, potential shutdown

Silverton EMS recently announced in a Facebook post they are hosting an EMT-Basic class as a “last ditch effort” to save the community’s ambulance service. As with most rural EMS services, Silverton has been faced with the dreaded personnel crisis forced by a lack of volunteers.Volunteering for a local EMS service has become quite challenging in today’s world. In...

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