Josh Schoemann: “In Washington county, we have 13 different departments…”

“I think, I think you start the conversation by doubling down on that, which has been done and done well for century now and that is reinforcing local control, supporting those local departments. 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.” (13:08–13:17)

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