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Expansion helps reduce emergency response times
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EMS Captain Brent Dethlefs, right, and crew member Chris Hyde stand in the doorway which connects the city’s new EMS living quarters to the ambulance bays.
Two years after launching a city-owned and operated fire-based EMS service local ambulance personnel have begun transitioning into new overnight living quarters with the completion of a 14th Street fire barn expansion project.
The city initially built living quarters for its EMS staff on the second floor of the 13th Street station, but later was informed by the fire marshal that the facility had…
