County EMS Works Record Number of Calls in 2022

To date, Fayette County EMS (FCEMS) has responded to over 4,139 calls for service, a record year for the department. Of those calls, 2,792 resulted in a patient being transported to the hospital. FCEMS responded to 1,347 calls for lift assistance or other types of calls that did not require medical treatment or transportation. The department provided stand-by assistance and medical services to police and fire at approximately 70 incidents. FCEMS also provided medical stand-by services for all of the local high school football games.

We have continued to leverage as many federal and state sources as possible to improve our equipment, training, and capital projects with the assistance of Angela Hahn, the county’s grant administrator. Multiple projects including new and improved cardiac monitors, a new ambulance, and a new Schulenburg EMS station will be completed very soon and all have been accomplished with out increasing the burden on the tax payers.

Lieutenants Neil Watkins and Conner Zeller were both promoted to the rank of Captain within our department. We are excited to see these two leaders in these roles and are looking forward to many years of their leadership.

We are also excited to hopefully start staffing a unit on a part time basis in the Round Top Fire Station in the first half of 2023.

The partnership with the Round Top – Warrenton Volunteer Fire Department has been hugely beneficial to increasing the timeliness of the service we are able to provide to the entire Northeastern portion of the county.

We have eventual plans for this unit to be a full-time, fully-staffed ambulance.

We will also begin recruiting a full-time Assistant Director Position at some point in 2023, a change that will enable our department to ensure the highest level of training and patient care are being delivered to our stakeholders.