 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reed Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reed at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Tuesday, February 28th, the Pike County Fiscal Court and Lifeguard Ambulance Services came to an agreement to place an ambulance in Phelps. Lifeguard Fiscal Court authorized a bid for a trailer to be placed here at Phelps on county property. And then Lifeguard will base an ambulance there. It's not going to be there 24 hours a day because it's going to be out on calls, but it will be based here and it will be serving this area predominantly. One ambulance is not enough, you probably need two or three, but it's a start. And I would rather have an ambulance based here because if it is here when something happens, it's certainly going to cut response times. It's not going to fix the problem, but it's a positive first step until we see what happens with the CO in the certificate of need for the ambulance service here. Currently, ambulance response time to Phelps can take over an hour, leaving residents without critical emergency care. We've had problems in Elkhorn City, we've had problems all over the county, Dorton, Shelby Gap. Pike County is 888 square miles, and that is a massive geographical area. And as you heard Lifeguard say, they're running six to seven trucks a day. That's what they can staff. And six to seven trucks a day is probably not enough. If they had more EMTs, they would put more trucks on, I believe that. But it's a large county and it's not just emergency calls. There are people who have to be transported from nursing homes, from hospitals to other hospitals. All of those things put strains on the system. And if you have your ambulances all out doing medical transports, that have to be done, and then emergency calls come in, it really is concerning that there's not enough ambulances to cover the needs. Although one ambulance is a temporary fix, the residents of Phelps are seeking a certificate of need to place an additional ambulance service in Phelps. It's a good short term. It'd be nice to have two, because if you have one already on a run, you're still left high and dry. But for short term, it'll work. Like everybody said, it's a band-aid on a tourniquet situation. So there'll be good come out of it, but we'll just have to see how it goes. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.