Because of an increased number of ambulance calls, LaRue County Fiscal Court, meeting at the courthouse in Hodgenville April 10, authorized Emergency Medical Services Director Mike Cottrell to add another full-time crew of two paramedics and two emergency medical technicians to his staff.
The number of runs jumped from 459 for the January 1-March 23, 2017, period to 623 for the same period this year, according to Cottrell.