Re: "E.C. Council discusses ambulance system that is 'ripe for failure' "

Good morning Scott and thanks for your coverage of the discussion at the last Electric City Council meeting concerning possible changes in the operation of the Grand Coulee Ambulance. I have cleared this with [Grand Coulee Fire Chief] Ryan Fish.

The ages for the ten most active Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Service EMT’s are 75, 72, 64, 50, 44, 43, 40, 38, 37 and 25 years old.

Respectively, two old goats and a bunch of kids.

Fred Netzel

Editor’s note: Netzel, who works on the ambulance crew, is responding to a comment made at the meeting that their average age is 65. Averaging the 10 ages he gives here yields a younger result: 49 years old, rounding up.