White Mills ambulance unit set to begin service Monday

Hardin County EMS will be celebrating Monday.

“We have a pretty big event coming up with the ambulance, the ninth ambulance, that we are going to celebrate at the White Mills station of West Hardin Fire and Rescue, and we’re going to have a ceremony there, a roll-in ceremony, on Monday, December 1, at 8:30 a.m.,” said Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul during Tuesday’s Hardin County Fiscal Court meeting.

Hardin County Government says the roll-in ceremony is a tradition that dates to the era of horse-drawn apparatus.

The county says the addition of the White Mills ambulance “will substantially decrease run times”, with current data showing the average time from a call placed to an ambulance arriving on scene is 30 minutes. Hardin County EMS has three ambulances posted in Elizabethtown, three in Radcliff, one in Sonora, and one at the Hardin County Detention Center.

In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be postponed, but ambulance service will commence on December 1 regardless. Follow the Hardin County Government Facebook page for updates.