Waupun residents could see a referendum next year to help cover the costs of expanding its ambulance service. The city recently launched an Emergency Medical Responder program, which is currently being bolstered by trained “paid-on-call volunteers.”
Mayor Rohn Bishop says the program started to help cut down on wait times.
“We have a contracted ambulance service, that by-in-large does a good job,” says Bishop, “but they get busy taking care of inter-facility transfers for the hospital and prisons and there are often times we have 911 calls where we’re paging an ambulance from Fox Lake, Beaver Dam, or Fond du Lac and people are waiting a half hour for an ambulance to show up because there not available.”