Ambulance Facility to go online

By Kalen McCain
Posted 7/15/20

After months of back-and-forth negotiations and outfitting to a new ambulance facility just south of Kalona, crews will start operating out of the building this week.

“Once all the crew gets …

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Ambulance Facility to go online

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After months of back-and-forth negotiations and outfitting to a new ambulance facility just south of Kalona, crews will start operating out of the building this week.

“Once all the crew gets through it and has their questions answered, we’ll go live with it,” Ambulance Service Director Jeremy Peck said. “That could be as early as tomorrow morning or it could be as late as Friday, but we will go live out of here this week.”

Peck said the new facility would substantially shorten the wait for ambulances in Kalona, Riverside, and Wellman.

“It will significantly reduce (response times) for the Northern part of the county, which is where better than 40% of our call volume is at,” Peck said. “It will have a truck to them faster than before.”

In addition to the new base, Peck said the county would begin scheduling an on-call crew to improve response times.

“If both the Washington truck and this Kalona truck go out on calls, we’ll now page another crew in and they’ll be able to go to the station and respond to calls,” Peck said. “Now we know that we’ll have a crew or we won’t have a crew because we’ll actually schedule it.”