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Botetourt EMS have two new ambulances

Staff and officials push the ambulance into the bay.

Botetourt County purchased two state of the art ambulances from Braun Company in the midwest. They ambulances are safer and even have a self loading stretcher in each. “Public saftey is a high priority in the county,” said Gary Larrowe, County Administrator. Besides Larrowe, Fincastle Supervisor Dick Bailey and Chief Jason Ferguson and PR for Botetourt Cody Sexton attended the event.

One of the new ambulances is located in Troutville and and the other in Fincastle.

As per tradition staff and officials pushed the Fincastle ambulance into the station. Earlier Troutville did the same.

Story and photo by Cathy Benson. Video is on The Botetourt Bee FB page.