The Lakehills area does not have a fulltime ambulance crew in operation as its residents have demanded, but it does have a part-time crew on board temporarily while the county decides if demand for service justifies keeping the crew there permanently.
Bandera County commissioners decided to add a two-person, peak shift of Emergency Medical Service personnel to the county budget this year to help the department handle calls for service when they are the heaviest –from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
EMS Director Calvin Plummer decided when the fiscal year started on Oct. 1, that the peak shift would be housed ...