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TERRACE - Volunteers scoop up rubber ducks that were released into the Skeena for the Riverboat Days Rotary Duck Race on Aug. 5. Here are the winners of the 2013 Great Duck Race: 1st prize: Robin McLean duck #2101 (Kitwanga); 2nd prize: Marilyn Richey duck #0138 (Terrace); 3rd prize: William Weber duck #2210 (Prince Rupert); 4th prize: Frances Turner duck #1285 (Gitsegukla).

Stewart’s ambulance crisis deepens By Josh Massey

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STEWART - Stewart’s ongoing ambulance services issue came to a head last week with the resignation of two part-time BC Ambulance paramedics—one citing a lack of support from BC Ambulance for remote communities. The two departures left a single part-time paramedic who was potentially unavailable depending on work schedule, and three part-time drivers. According to unit chief paramedic Cindy Ellwood who resigned July 30, this meant there would potentially be no coverage for the long weekend. “Yeah, it’s a crisis situation... we are shut down because I am not working. They said it’s

the long weekend, they can’t get anyone to come up here because everyone is busy,” Ellwood said last week. Ellwood said she decided to resign due to the pressure put on her by repeated service gaps. “I can’t wait around for another ambulance coming from three-and-a-half or four hours away and watch someone die. It’s not in me to do that. I didn’t join the ambulance for that,” she said. Chief operating officer of BC Ambulance Les Fisher said that for the long weekend an air emergency crew was ready in Prince Rupert and ambulance support from Kitwanga, 213 kilometres south of Stewart. After the long weekend BC Ambulance sent up a paramedic from Smithers to fill in, accord-

ing to Stewart’s deputy mayor Patty Lynn, however the service problem is ongoing, and the community has been getting by any way it can. “There was a woman who fell in front of a hotel. The hotel called 911. They said there is no ambulance service, they are up north, we will send them from Hazelton – that’s three-and-ahalf hours away,” she said. “They called the hospital. One of the nurses came down and one of the doctors showed up. A local company ran to their first-aid ambulance truck and grabbed a backboard ... they put her in the back of their pickup and took her to the hospital.” According to Lynn, the number of calls to emergency centres is on the rise due to booming de-

velopment in the region. In terms of a longer term solution, Fisher said efforts are being made to recruit people “who want to come out and really support their community and look after their neighbours” and BC Ambulance is putting on an emergency responder course this September in Stewart. The part-time ambulance staff are paid $2 an hour to be on call, and then get a higher hourly wage during callouts. “I told BC Ambulance they have to streamline their application,” Lynn said. On July 18, MLA Doug Donaldson addressed the issue formally with a hand-delivered letter to Minister of Health Terry Lake asking for an “immediate solution.”

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