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Fla. County Delays Controversial Protocol Change
CLEARWATER - In a move that may head off a legal battle, Pinellas County officials are set to delay a controversial change to the county’s 911 medical-emergency system until at least the middle of July.
County commissioners in January approved changes to the county’s emergency dispatch so that only an ambulance would be sent to about 14,000 low-priority medical calls, a move that fire chiefs said would mean longer waits for distressed 911 callers.
That criticism and the threat of a lawsuit from St. Petersburg, prompted commissioners to push back the change until June 1, long after a Fitch and Associates study into overhauling the EMS system was expected to be finished.
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