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FEMA Sends Three Temporary Ambulance Crews To Guilford County

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Guilford County emergency service crews are getting some temporary assistance from the federal government. 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing North Carolina with 25 Advanced Life Support Ambulances along with two-person crews. 

According to a news release from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, the EMS crews are being sent to areas that are experiencing greatly increased calls for service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three of those units are being assigned to Guilford County.

The ambulance crews arrived in North Carolina on Sunday and have been provided with personal protective equipment and communications gear. They will remain in their assigned counties for 10 days. Officials will then determine if any changes need to be made.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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