Winder seeks return of ambulance

Barrow Journal

RSS Feed

Email Alerts

Twitter

Facebook

Winder seeks return of ambulance

Posted by

Mike Buffington

in Winder Archives

Wednesday, March 16. 2011

Comments (3)

Winder doesn’t have an ambulance in the town and hasn’t had for nearly 14 months.

The closest Advance Life Support ambulance to Winder, Barrow County’s largest and densest population center, is 4.7 miles away in Bethlehem and has a Winder response time of over 5.5 minutes.

But that may be changing. The issue of having an ALS ambulance in Winder was brought up at last week’s Winder City Council meeting. City officials said they want a 2006 agreement between the county and city that put an ambulance in the town revisited.

Councilman Bob Dixon said after the council meeting that evidently county officials forgot the original plan, or ignored it.

“We’re going to help people remember the plan,” he said. “Because we need to do the right thing here. We do need a permanent ambulance in the city of Winder.”

For the complete story, see the March 16 issue of the Barrow Journal.

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

#1 Retired Firefighter on 03/16/11 at 04:29 PM [Reply]

If the city of Winder wants a ambulance in the city, I think the best thing for the tax payers is to combine the city and county fire departments into one. I sure there is places in the county that is more than 5.5 miles away from any fire station or ambulance.

#1.1 longtime in Winder on 03/20/11 at 04:28 PM [Reply]

Winder is the countyseat of Barrow County and actually the reason we have a Barrow County, It is the largest City/Town and the central population center, It should have a EMS unit stationed there period, it is a disservice to YOU and all of us, and from the Center of Barrow it could back up any unit in any direction faster too, IT MAKES SENSE.

What you didn’t ask was “How can the County Government and the EMS structure be so mismanaged to not see this?” --and why would I want to turn anything over to them?

(Note: Winder was here first and asked the legislature for it's own county in the late 1800's repeatedly and got it finally in 1914).

Seriously, you are a retired firefighter? This county is only 162 square miles (about the 8th smallest in area) with a population of around 70,000 (in the Top25 of 159), you think this the best we can do?

#2 CHarlie on 03/24/11 at 05:58 AM [Reply]

THis shouldnt really be an issue. PRIVATE! Discuss with Barrow Medical Center, and their contracted ambulance provider to provide 24 hour ALS in the city. Offer crews housing in the fire house. There ar several highly qualified PRIVATE EMS operations in the area that with teh right conditions wouldbe happy to to provide this service!

Charlie

Add Comment

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to
Comment: E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.
To leave a comment you must approve it via e-mail, which will be sent to your address after submission.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.

Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above:
Phone*

What is zero plus five?
: Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry
: Submitted comments will be subject to moderation before being displayed.

This Week's Poll

Community

Barrow Community

Winder seeks return of ambulance

Barrow Journal

Winder seeks return of ambulance

Recent Stories

Recent Comments

This Week's Poll

Sister Sites

Archives

Community

Keyword Tags