In rural Wisconsin, friends and neighbors often volunteer their time to provide life-saving care to people in their time of need. But some emergency medical services are seeing fewer volunteers and communities are struggling to come up with the money to provide care.
In some areas, residents are served by a hybrid system of professionals and volunteers. On a recent shift, Rayne Edinger and another paramedic headed out from the Ashland Fire Department to help Red Cliff's volunteer EMS with a patient.
“We’ll step out, grab our gear, climb into their ambulance, receive a report from the EMTs and basically pick up from there,” Edinger explained.
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