People in one county will now have more reliable emergency services after it was decided to start a paid EMS service Monday night. People in the small communities in Patrick County have been waiting two to three hours to get to a hospital after dialing 9-1-1 recently. Some, according to County Emergency Management Coordinator Steve Allen, were told to just drive themselves. Anita Prutting spoke Monday night to the Board of Supervisors about an incident she had with a person suffering a grand mal seizure in October while working at Piedmont Community Services.