Ray Blessing
EMS Chief at Columbia County Fire Rescue in Columbia County, Georgia, where he leads the county's emergency medical services system and EMS Advisory Board.
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But at that time there was a lot of talk about the fire service merging into EMS.
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And typically in the fire service it begins at the big departments and then it kind of transitions down to the smaller departments.
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It was not in the Augusta area by no means, but there was a considerable amount of talk to it when I got hired as a paid man.
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So I really became an EMT to try to, I knew at some point we were going to be forced to do that.
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