OUR VIEW
We need to find answers for keeping ambulance
The challenges of providing ambulance service in a rural area are not unique to Clarke County or even Alabama.

Rural areas all across the nation are facing similar problems in trying to keep emergency ambulance services running. With increasing fuel costs, long trips and decreasing reimbursements from agencies like Medicare, the challenges are steep. Many private ambulance services struggle to barely break even or try to minimize their losses.

Many rural communities have had to institute some form of taxation from the public to help keep their services running, and it looks like that time may be coming soon for Clarke County as well.

We know that LifeLine will be presenting its case to county and city authorities this week, but we don't know how they will react. But the owners of the Thomasville-based service say they don't know how much longer they can hold on without help.

We're no experts and we don't know what the best solution might be for keeping ambulances running in the county, we just know we can't afford to lose such a service.

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