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LOUISA — Emergency response teams are asking the Louisa Board of Supervisors to reconsider its vote on June 4, to terminate the mutual aid agreement with Fluvanna County.
The agreement allows the counties to use each other’s EMS crews when extra help is needed. Lake Monticello Rescue Assistant Chief John Lye says the change could cut into critical response times.
“We’re in a rural area so our turnaround time by the time we leave the building to get to the patient can take from five minutes to 40 minutes depending on where we are in the county,” said Lye. He continued, “then we have to come into the hospital so typically [that can] take on the order of two hours.”
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