A new ambulance was delivered last month in Coosa County but it is not yet in service.
Just last week the Coosa County Commission voted to apply for a grant to cover 75 percent of the ambulance’s $178,739 price tag to be put in service with an emergency medical service (EMS) based in Rockford. The commission and other leaders have been working to provide an ambulance service to the western part of the county. Goodwater and Kellyton in northeastern Coosa County have ambulance services through volunteer fire departments — the only EMS services in Coosa County.
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