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Contributions to local emergency medical services could become mandatory in the form of fees or taxes if a plan to create a new authority to oversee EMS is adopted. But exactly who would pay those in Tarentum, Brackenridge, Fawn, Frazer and East Deer remains to be seen. Brackenridge wants to
EMS agencies in Berks and beyond understaffed and underfunded, state expert says
Regional ambulance service officials say they’ll try to grab a piece of increased state funding for emergency medical services, but repeated their plea for a new funding model. “In a nutshell, the system has been collapsing for a good while,” said Brad James of 
Eureka Hose EMS in Tarentum. The
EMS agencies in Berks and beyond understaffed and underfunded, state expert says
Outside perspectives can still be valuable even if they tell you what you already know. Such is largely the case with a state Department of Community and Econ