In Washington county. We have 13 different departments, seven of them are volunteer, paid, on call, private departments. Six of them are municipal. And we have 20 municipalities. So For us it's not a county EMS like as in a county takeover. We don't want a county EMS department. There are counties in the state that have that. But I'm not interested in more county bureaucracy or larger county departments. I'm interested in how are we the county here as a facilitator and a partner. (13:19–13:27)
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Asserts that Washington County does not intend to create a county EMS department.
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