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PIERRE, S.D. – Many emergency services across South Dakota are having budget and volunteer staffing problems. Custer County Commission Chairman Jim Lintz appeared in front of the Game, Fish and Parks Commission (Thursday) with a familiar complaint. “We’re running out of volunteers. One of the reasons we’re running out of volunteers is because of the […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rural ambulance services in South Dakota are having an increasingly hard time recruiting volunteers and generating revenues, putting the stability of the services at risk and making it more likely that rural residents will endure longer response times in emergencies or possibly lose ambulance service altogether. The latest to announce an […]
PIERRE, SD – Legislators on an interim committee heard about issues finding and keeping volunteer first responders. Appearing before the “Mental Health of First Responders” Task Force, Jerome Harvey, Fire Administrator for Pennington County said finding volunteers has become much more difficult. “We haven’t grasped the reality that we’re past the tipping point as far […]
