For nine hours on Monday, the Port Washington ambulance service didn’t have enough emergency medical technicians to staff its ambulance, Fire Chief Mark Mitchell told the Police and Fire Commission Monday.
The calls that came in to the department instead had to be handled by the Grafton ambulance crew, Mitchell said.
“I had two Grafton ambulances in the City of Port Washington answering calls at one time,” he said. “I had three ambulances in the station sitting there because I had no one to staff them. It’s embarrassing.”