PICTURED ARE, front row: Gena Swenson, Marla Feistner, Gay Lynne Ames, Kathy Wingert, Sherryl Rankin; back row: Aaron Fink, David Swenson, Jim VanDenHemel, Neal Hiemstra; EMTs not pictured: Stephen Davis and Jodi Doering. Drivers not pictured: Kylie Forbes, Garrett Foos, Darin Kilcoin and Heather Westendorf.

National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) week is May 21-27. On any given day, EMS practitioners help save lives by responding to medical emergencies, including heart attack, difficulty breathing, a fall or accident, drowning, cardiac arrest, stroke, drug overdose or acute illness. They provide basic and advanced medical care at the scene of an emergency and en route to a hospital.
Currently, Sanborn County Ambulance has a total of 11 EMTs/RNs and four EVOC drivers.

…Read more and see a picture of the first Sanborn County Ambulance vehicle in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal.