Billings Gazette
MANDAREE, N.D. — Troy Easton traded his career as a flight paramedic for a drilling rig job in Wyoming six years ago, pulling in three times what he used to make. From Texas to Wyoming’s hilly gas patch, he noticed that much of the nation’s resurgent oil and gas industry’s activity was taking place in remote areas. That worried the paramedic in him.
“I started thinking, ‘What if I get hurt? Where’s the ambulance?’” he said.
One day he had to drive himself to the hospital — an hour away — with symptoms of a heart attack.
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