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The Bedford County 911 Center on Thursday reversed a controversial change it made four months ago by restoring a five-minute interval for ambulance services to commit to answering emergency calls.
Four months ago, the center reduced the time it gave ambulance services to muster a crew to about 2.5 minutes, because of increasingly long and increasingly frequent delays before patients received help, especially after COVID-19 mushroomed in Bedford County, according to officials.
But all seven volunteer ambulance services in the county objected that the shorter interval was inadequate, which, coupled with easing of the COVID-19 outbreak, led to a recent compromise agreement to bring back the five minutes for the first service called although reduced times remain for secondary services, while paging responsibilities for the 911 Center have shrunk.
Everett Fire Company and Raystown Ambulance Service responded to a single vehicle rollover crash on the Route 30 westbound ramp from Route 26 around 6 p.m. on Friday. The truck