UNICOI COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Unicoi County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) said Wednesday that the county’s EMS department received its first new ambulance since Hurricane Helene struck in September.
EMA Director Jim Erwin told News Channel 11 that the unit is the first the county officially owns since Hurricane Helene destroyed numerous ambulances.
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“We lost three ambulances during the flood on September 27th,” he said. “And all the ambulances we’re running currently belong to someone else. They were loaned to us or had been given to us and didn’t have our name or our description, or our town, or our agency name on it. So we came up with a new vision. It kind of reflects Unicoi County High School, blue and gray.”
Erwin added that the ambulance’s wrapping and labels were branded to fit Unicoi County, as well as the donated vehicles that were still in need of a uniform look…