Vol. 37, No. 9 3 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019
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Critical delays
Town of Crawford reports long EMS response times
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Crawford’s
Emergency
Medical
Services (EMS) response times are longer
than the ideal time, a statistic that Orange
County Legislature Rob Sassi said puts
residents at risk.
“It’s critical for the Town of Crawford,
which is a rural area. We don’t have proper
service, and it needs to be addressed,”
Sassi said.
According to the Orange County EMS
Summit report, Basic Life Support (BLS),
or non-life-threatening calls, took an
average of 15 minutes and 20 seconds for
Pine Bush EMS.
The Pine Bush EMS responded in an
average of 15 minutes and 30 seconds
for Advanced Life Support (ALS), or life-
threatening calls, and Mobile Life Support
Services, Inc. responded in approximately
19 minutes, on average.
Frank Cassanite, Orange County
Deputy Commissioner of Emergency
Services, said the ideal response time
for ALS calls is around eight minutes.
According to a 2017 national study
published in Jama Surgery, the U.S.
median response time for EMS services
was six minutes for suburban areas and
13 minutes for rural areas.
Cassanite said for BLS calls, Pine Bush
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is
dispatched first. If there is no response
within four minutes, the call goes to
mutual aid, which for Crawford is Mobile
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A nything G oes
Walden
mayor,
trustees
unopposed
in village
election
By TED REMSNYDER
Carl Aiello
Valley Central theater students rehearse a number from their upcoming production of Anything Goes, Saturday, at the Galleria at Crystal Run.
The curtain will rise on the 2019 spring musical on the weekend of April 5-7.
The upcoming Walden village election
on March 19 will see Mayor Susan
Rumbold and three village trustees
up for re-election for fresh two-year
terms, but this year’s balloting may
be anticlimactic, as all four races will
be non-contested, ensuring new terms
for all four incumbents. Trustees Faith
Moore and Lynn Thompson will each
secure their second terms on the council,
while Trustee Brian Sebring will gain his
seventh term on the board.
Rumbold will earn her third term
as mayor, and the official is eager to
continue in the role for another two-year
stint.
“As always, I’m happy to continue my
service to the Village of Walden,” she
said. “I think there’s been many positive
things that have happened for the village
in the past year, and I look forward to
continuing in that direction to bring
positives to the village.”
The third-floor offices in Village
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SERVING CRAWFORD, GARDINER, MAYBROOK, MONTGOMERY, PINE BUSH, SHAWANGUNK, WALDEN AND WALLKILL