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Fire in meat-processing trailer sends teen to hospital
A portable trailer used for cooking meat burst into flames on 4198 Arthur St. N., just north of Elmira on Feb. 17. Four people were in it at the time and a 15-year-old boy was airlifted to a Hamilton hospital with serious injuries. Damage was estimated at $30,000. The cause of fire is still under investigation. [Whitney Neilson / The Observer]
Nowak opposes proposed cuts to ambulance service Changes would make response times slower still, put Wellesley residents at greater risk, says township mayor
Scott Barber His township already dealing with the longest ambulance response times in the Region of Waterloo, Wellesley Mayor Joe Nowak is concerned plans to swap out a rural emergency response unit for a region-wide ambulance could exacerbate the problem. The proposal, part of the 2015 regional budget, calls
for the conversion of one of the three existing rural response (RERU) units to a 12hour ambulance. Nowak sees cause for concern. “In the initial staff report, they said that this has Joe Nowak the potential to negatively impact the response times in some of the rural municipalities,” he said. “Their thinking is, they want to
put an ambulance in there because the ambulance actually has the capability to carry a patient whereas the paramedic units don’t have that. If I understand it correctly, the plan is to have the ambulance situated in the new building in Phillipsburg and I think you have to understand that the ambulances are fluid,
and are constantly on the move, whenever they are needed. So it’s quite conceivable that particular ambulance could get called to Stratford or Kitchener or anywhere really; when that inevitably happens, that means that there will be no coverage in Wellesley Township at that time. And that’s a huge concern.” Region staff argue the change will help reduce Cuts | 27
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