7-town block should have more than 1 ALS ambulance

Editor:

Picture it, 2024 we live in a small rural community in western New York, 45 minutes from the closest acute care hospital. Someone in your family or yourself is having the worst day of their life…a serious medical emergency and your family needs an ambulance.

If you are lucky, one is available but if someone else in a 7-town radius is also in need of an advance life-saving ambulance you do not get one in a timely manner. Your local fire department volunteers show up to assist in any way they can. Ultimately your family sits waiting hoping another ambulance will come available.

The question is, why is it OK to leave our community with one Advance Life Support Ambulance to service the entire area of Albion, Barre, Carlton, Clarendon, Gaines, Kendall and Murray? This is less service than what has ever been provided to our towns in the past for free let alone now with a $300,000 contract.

Days of the past are gone. An ambulance service for this community needs to be a top priority. You do not see one sheriff deputy serving, you do not see one fire department serving, why is one ambulance acceptable to service our entire community?

The request for ambulances in Orleans County continues to rise and the final decision being made is not an acceptable one. Fellow residents, we need to stand up and make our concerns known! It does not matter whose name is on the side of that ambulance when it pulls into your driveway as long as there is one coming to save your life!

We are this community and we deserve a say.

Lorie Soule, Carlton

Kristen Ferris, Carlton

Todd Ferris, Carlton

Amber Conner, Albion

Raquel Jones, Carlton

Emma Klaver, Gaines

Amy Luft, Albion

Rebecca Grillo, Albion

Stanley Farone, Albion

Jennifer MacFarland, Barre

Chris Standish, Carlton

Kristin Rowles, Carlton business owner

Brandi Fisher, Carlton

Danielle Ernst, Carlton

Robert Conner, Albion

Kylie Hughson, Albion

Cameron Labarge, Albion

James Fisher Carlton

Elisha Hill, Albion

Ryan Hill, Albion

Catherine Usselman, Albion

Orest Usselman, Albion

William Francis Sr, Albion

Nancy Francis, Albion

Erica Francis, Albion

Timothy Monaghan, Albion

Sabrina DeCarlo, Carlton

Christine Bloom, Albion

Nathan Bloom, Albion

Hanna Vagg, Murray

Kim Reynolds, Carlton

Karen Narburgh, Carlton

Kailee Ward, Carlton

Karli Henchen, Albion

Jennifer Stilwell, Gaines

Samantha Tillman, Carlton

Stacy Daniels, Albion

Kristen Struble, Albion

Kristin Hartway, Barre

Shirley Goebel, Albion

Cate Usselman, Albion

Chris Glogowski, Murray

Courtney Ainsworth, Gaines

Katrina Bourke, Albion

Rhonda Oliver, Albion

Lori Ferris, Carlton

Ashley Dole, Albion

Michael Stilwell, Gaines

Jessica Marks, Carlton

Jake Marks, Carlton

Sandra Patten, Carlton

Jamie Barbour, Carlton

Francis Pierce, Gaines

Ryan Brown, Gaines

Danielle LaMartina, Albion

Jeremy Graham, Albion

Nancy Maines, Albion

Walter Ferris, Carlton

Brianna Caldwell, Albion

Robert Stilwell, Gaines

Jennifer Viza, Albion

Kari Hagglund, Albion

Leslee Lockwood, Albion

Michael Babcock, Albion

Valerie Hollis, Carlton

Joni Dix, Albion

Annette Finch, Albion

Casey Jurs, Kendall

Brian J Aina, Carlton

Amy Aina, Carlton

Rebekah Tabor Beach, Albion

Austin Zobel, Albion

Chelsea Polar, Yates

Emalee Verhagen, Gaines

Eric Hackenberg, Albion

Savanna Steffen, Albion

Deborah DiMatteo, Albion

Stephanie Murphy, Gaines

Kimberly Reynolds, Carlton

Lorraine Oakley, Gaines

Garry Oakley, Gaines

Steven Jurs, Kendall