VIDEO: KHON2's recent stories highlighting EMS spending and staffing now has the State Department of Health looking for more answers.
This, after we raised questions on ambulance units closing and the purchase of a gas truck that has never been used.
The health department controls the money for EMS but does give it leeway on what to purchase. Still, the state now wants more information on the problems we've raised.
"With regards to some of the issues you have raised I will definitely talk with the city and get some answers to these questions," said Dr. Alvin Bronstein, head of the health department's EMS branch.
He is aware of the $185,000 gas tanker truck bought three years ago, which sits in a storage facility and has never been used.
EMS also bought six self-contained breathing apparatus, at $5,000 each. They're normally used by firefighters and never been used by EMS.