Slatter, who's been in the role of chief for the last year and a half, is grateful for county council's leadership and the foresight of the union in bringing advanced paramedic care

to the region.

One of the goals when I got hired was to look at bringing advanced care paramedics to Halliburton County.

So we've been actually working on that essentially for over a year, working with the union, working with county council.

So it was proposed to county council during our budget meetings in the fall of last year to bring advanced care paramedics on board.

Here's what the cost would be, the impact to the budget.

We got approval to bring three advanced care paramedics in.

Slaughter says an advanced care paramedic ups the game here in Halliburton County by bringing a higher level of care for both residents and cottagers.