 At Audiology Associates at Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Mayor Les Stapleton announced a new ambulance service for the city of Prestonsburg on Tuesday, November 1st. For several years, there has been a shortage of EMS personnel all across the state. It's not just this area, but unfortunately, our community has suffered for the low levels of EMS personnel. So there has been several times where we've had to wait, you know, 10, 20, up to 50 minutes to get an ambulance. And it's not because the ambulance crew just decided they weren't going to come to us. It's because they were already busy on something. And so we decided that if we could have an ambulance at the city of Prestonsburg and cover just 911 calls, that it would free up these other two agencies to be able to do 911 calls out in the county, transfers, and other emergencies that are not in the city limits of Prestonsburg. And so now we can be first responders and we can transport these patients to the ER. Well, me and Selena got together and we started talking about the logo that we was going to use. We're offering EMS services. It's not feasible to use just the Maltese Cross because now we're offering two services. So we wanted to incorporate both of those logos together and come up with something unique for our ambulances. The ambulance service comes after many hard fought battles, some of which resulted in the changing of legislation. We started this process about three and a half years ago and it's been an uphill battle all the way. A local ambulance service fought it and they objected to it. So we had to go into a court case, basically. And during this whole time I was talking with Kentucky League of Cities and we were trying to change the law. So we did with the support of the council and support of Kentucky League of Cities. We changed the law that a city, once their legislative body, whether it's council, commission, whatever, says that they're in an emergency situation. They need an emergency ambulance service. The ambulance service is an important asset to the city of Prestonsburg and will free up other ambulances to work throughout the county. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.