New ambulance needed, commissioners told

Kimball County Commissioners were told a new ambulance was needed at their regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 20.

Ambulance Director Carla Goranson brought along Mike Schadegg of Schadegg Motors to help explain that the county ambulances are in need of repair and to be replaced.

“One of them needs to be replaced for sure. Even though the one doesn’t have many miles on it, it has made up for that in all the time it has spent idling while on calls,” Schadegg said.

Goranson confirmed that the ambulances spend a lot of time on scene idling in order to keep the machinery on the inside running.

“If...