Grants bolster rural ambulances with training, equipment

Last of $20 million in federal funds funneled to local agencies

Motorized cots and chairs, emergency medical technician training and life support dummies are among the purchases made by local ambulance services through two rounds of grant awards from the South Dakota Department of Health.

Some of those items came up during the first meeting of the Legislature’s Emergency Medical Services Interim Committee last week in Pierre. That body is studying ways to maint…