HARDIN CO.—The sorry state of emergency response in Hardin County has taken a potentially deadly turn.
Disclosure has learned that due to the lack of support from the county board and years of criminal mismanagement, there are no operational ambulances at the Hardin County Ambulance service.
To make matters worse, an 86-year-old patient in Cave-in-Rock has waited tonight on an ambulance to arrive from Harrisburg (Saline County Ambulance is actually a Williamson County-run service owned by one of the problem children of this debacle, Richard “Doc” Collier)
And this after board member David Robinson spewed during the most recent board meeting that “We will have one ambulance at all times in Hardin County. We will NOT leave the county without coverage!”
Apparently that didn’t last past the first crisis.
At 5:25 p.m. Disclosure was notified the Hardin County Ambulance service just got a rig up and running.
Sources close to the story say the county board could be facing serious legal issues if they continue to kick the can down the road when it comes to supporting their county’s ambulance service.
Two of the three board members have sat on their hands in the past and that is part of the reason the service is in such dire straights.
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