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EXCITING NEWS FROM CHIEF SCHNEIDER 8.29.25

8am this morning Myself, EFD Medical officer David Katzenstien, BHS EMS Coordinator Crystal VanDeusen, and BHS Affiliate Hospital Medical Director El Ragone, DO. all gathered together and went over the last little bit of business and at 9am Medical Director El Ragone, DO. gave the go ahead and Egremont Fire is now operating as a Class 5 non-transport ambulance service with our R8. This allows us to officially up our level of EMS service from First Responder to EMT. This has been a very exhausting process(But don't take that the wrong way as this is very rewarding being able to provide a better level of service). I give all the credit to Dave Katzenstien for putting in multiple hours, sleepless nights, and lots of hard fought work in the last 8 months to achieve this status which is not easy. I would like to also thank some others that have helped us along in this process, SBA director Kevin Wall, SBA Paramedic AJ Anderson, our friends and mutual aid partner GBFD, and anyone else I forgot (which I'm sure I did) A Huge THANK YOU!!