By Laura French
MAGOFFIN COUNTY, Ky. — A class of middle school students were among a group of concerned citizens who wrote letters addressing the lack of an ambulance service in a Kentucky county.
Magoffin County Judge-Executive Matthew Wireman has filed for a certificate-of-need for an ambulance service, which has garnered the support of residents who worry an ambulance won’t be there when they need one, according to WYMT.
The letters will help back Wireman’s 19-page application, which seeks to help rectify the lack of service the county has experienced over the last six to eight months, according to the judge-executive.
A local seventh-grade teacher asked if her class could help support the cause, and students wrote about their fears that they or their loved ones might not receive care in an emergency.
“They all wrote a lot of very interesting things but there was a common theme,” Wireman told WYMT. “That the ambulance wouldn’t get there on time if they had a heart attack or they cut themselves.”