This article suggests that rural areas in America (the article focuses on western and midwestern states) are losing EMS services as volunteer EMTs are retiring.
This is a problem that goes deeper than EMS. Volunteer firefighters are also short in supply, says this story. And rural hospitals are in trouble across the country, especially in states that are not expanding Medicaid.
All of which means that rural America, which supplies much of the food and fuel that the country depends on, may be headed for a state of emergency.
We sell emergency notification services, and we think that’s important. But we also think it’s important to support the folks who are there for victims when emergencies happen.
