EMS raises money for gurney

Pine Haven’s EMS has been working on funding a hydraulic gurney to be attached to the ambulance for the last couple of years and Saturday’s fundraiser raised more than $6000 toward that goal.

EMT Barb Hardy reported that there were probably more than 200 guests who “came and stayed for a while and left” throughout the three hour event. There were five participating teams in the gurney race; each team paid a $30 entrance fee. The teams then had to run a course pushing the manual gurney to pick up a “patient” (consisting of two bags of pellets) and push the loaded gurney back to start. The Downe...