Floyd County, Indiana considers options other than New Chapel for ambulance service | News from WDRB [Video]

There is almost nothing more important to Mark Richardson than a reliable ambulance service. 

 “A person that has had a stroke doesn’t have but three minutes to get to a hospital,” Richardson, 60, and the survivor of four strokes, said. “I was fortunate to be at the doctor’s or at the hospital when I had them.”

And a life on wheels has landed Robert Reeve in the back of an ambulance more than once.  

“If I fall and hurt myself to where I need an ambulance, I would like for one to show and take me to the hospital,” said Reeve.

WDRB is told option six is the preferred option, allowing the county to explore adding an ambulance service to the fire department or starting a county-owned and operated service. Regardless of the path they chose, it will be more expensive.  

“I get taxed anyway so if I have to pay a little bit …