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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — One of Pinellas County’s 18 fire departments is threatening to sue the county over years of cuts in the emergency medical services budget.
Over a three-year period at the beginning of the recession, county officials cut about $1.8 million in EMS funding from the budget of Pinellas Suncoast Fire and Rescue.
Suncoast spent the next few years lobbying to get the money back. Now, the Suncoast Fire Commission has voted to sue the county to get the money it lost and to have the funds restored in future budgets. The county contracts with the fire departments to provide EMS countywide.
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