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The Washington County Board of Supervisors heard the quarterly report from Interim Ambulance Director Katrina Altenhofen at their Tuesday meeting, “Within the directors summary, we have hired two new part-time EMTs, and then we had two of our EMT staff graduate into paramedic and chose to stay at our service to be in that paramedic line. We are seeing an extreme increase within our call volume. And if it continues at that rate, there’s a good potential that we’re going to have over four thousand calls. Now granted, it may level off, it may not, but we had 94 times in these three months that we needed to call in a third and fourth crew. If we continue like I stated at that rate, you could look for us ending this fiscal year with over 4800 calls for service.” There are plans for future work sessions to go over adding another ambulance truck to the service to help with increased call volume