Fulton County Emergency Management / Fire Coordinators Office

09/12/2026

September 19th

09/12/2026

Today is September 12th. Let’s all try a little harder..

09/11/2026

09/10/2026

If an ambulance isn’t staffed, the solution seems obvious.

Hire more EMTs and paramedics.

EMS agencies are certainly trying.

The harder part is finding people who want to enter the profession and then giving experienced providers a reason to stay.

EMS isn’t only competing with other ambulance services for employees. It’s competing with hospitals, fire departments, law enforcement, other healthcare careers and jobs completely outside of public safety.

Becoming an EMT requires training and certification. Becoming a paramedic requires considerably more education and clinical training.

Then comes the job itself.

Nights. Weekends. Holidays. Long shifts. Missed meals. Difficult calls. Significant medical responsibility.

People will accept those things when the career they get in return is worth it.

That’s why compensation, benefits, working conditions, opportunities for advancement and retirement aren’t simply employee issues. They affect whether an EMS agency can attract and retain enough qualified people to staff its ambulances.

Recruiting someone is only half the battle.

You have to keep them.

Because at the end of the day, an ambulance without a crew is just an expensive vehicle sitting in a garage.

Save NYS EMS
Educating New Yorkers. Strengthening EMS.

09/09/2026

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09/09/2026

We will never forget…

09/09/2026

The Ambulance Made It to the Hospital. Why Isn’t It Available Again?

An ambulance arrives at the emergency department with a patient.

You might assume that crew is immediately ready for the next 911 call.

Sometimes they are.

Sometimes they’re not.

Before an ambulance can go back into service, the crew needs to transfer responsibility for their patient to the hospital. When an emergency department is crowded, that process can take longer.

While the crew is waiting, that ambulance may not be available for another emergency.

One delayed ambulance might not sound like a major problem.

But what happens when several crews are waiting at hospitals at the same time?

An EMS system that had multiple ambulances available earlier can suddenly find itself with far fewer resources to answer calls.

Another ambulance may have to travel from farther away. A neighboring service might be asked to cover the call. That can then leave fewer resources available in the neighboring community.

This is why hospital crowding doesn’t stop at the doors of the emergency department.

It can affect the EMS system outside of it too.

Getting a patient to the hospital is only part of an ambulance call.

Getting that ambulance back into the community matters too.

Save NYS EMS
Educating New Yorkers. Strengthening EMS.

09/08/2026

Who pays for the ambulance that shows up when you call 911?

The answer depends on where you live.

EMS in New York is provided through a mix of municipal agencies, fire departments, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, commercial ambulance companies and other arrangements.

How those services are funded varies too.

Patient billing may cover part of the cost. Local taxpayers may support the system. A municipality may contract with an ambulance provider. Some systems rely on several sources of revenue to keep ambulances operating.

But here’s something that’s easy to overlook:

An ambulance service costs money even when nobody is calling 911.

The crew still has to be there.

The ambulance has to be maintained. Medical equipment and medications have to be stocked. Providers need training. Insurance, communications, facilities and countless other expenses don’t disappear because there hasn’t been a call in the last hour.

That’s part of what makes funding EMS difficult.

We’re not simply paying for transportation when somebody gets sick.

We’re paying to have trained medical professionals, equipment and an ambulance ready before the emergency happens.

That readiness has a cost.

How we pay for it is one of the biggest questions facing EMS in New York.

Save NYS EMS
Educating New Yorkers. Strengthening EMS.

09/06/2026

This is to inform you that the Village will be performing a repair on September 8th. 2026.

Information can be found on the website at

https://townofmayfieldny.gov/government/village-mayfield

If there are any questions, please reach out to the Village at 518-661-5414 ext. 27.