PIERCETON - "It's like going from a Volkswagen to a Cadillac," said Chuck See, president of the Pierceton-Washington-Monroe Emergency Medical Services Association. The volunteer group recently acquired a 1998 MedTech ambulance, upgrading from a 1986 model. The new ambulance, a demonstration model, was purchased with a $10,000 Kosciusko County Foundation grant; contributions from Washington Township, which supplied two-thirds of the costs; and with money gathered through several fund-raising events which began in the spring sponsored by the EMTs, at a final cost of $77,200, including trade-in of the 12-year-old ambulance. "The community and the township have always been supporting of emergency medical services," See said."We're very proud of this vehicle." The new rig holds the same amount of basic life support supplies as the "old" ambulance but there is one-and-a-half times more room in back.
TERESA CARRANO, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016