Rescue 27 staffing for beach communities
Summary
Officials and residents from Indian Rocks Beach, Indian Shores, Belleair Beach, and Belleair Shore asked the county to fully staff Rescue 27 with a paramedic, saying their communities get basic life support responses where others get paramedic-level care, worsened by drawbridge delays.
At a glance
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Impact analysis
Unspecified cost for a paramedic position; the county's EMS fund is also projected to be depleted around 2032 without changes.
Beach community residents and visitors who would gain paramedic-level emergency transport on their side of the drawbridge.
No one is directly harmed, though funding it would add cost to a strained EMS fund.
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