Hill City Ambulance Service to begin raising funds for a new building

HILL CITY, S.D. — The Hill City Ambulance Service is now wanting for choices for a new facility.

The ambulance service serves over an space of 380 sq. miles, together with in and across the metropolis, Keystone space and all the way in which to the Wyoming border.

“We’ve come to a milestone the place now we have to make a location change for the ambulance,” mentioned Director of the Hill City Ambulance Service Craig Comer.

For the final 20 years, the Hill City Volunteer Fire Department has shared house with the ambulance service. While they’ve made do in all that point, the hourglass has run out of sand.

“With the growth of their assets and with our 24/7 crews that now we have, each of us are simply out of room,” Comer mentioned.

Comer says there’s additionally been no luck in getting funding from the state. In congress, there’s a invoice in committee that may allocate roughly $1 billion {dollars} for ambulance service across the U.S.

But hearth officers within the county query if the funding will probably be sufficient, or if Hill City will get sufficient to purchase a building.

“It’s important infrastructure throughout the nation and that may put Hill City in competitors with 19,000 different hearth ambulance departments throughout the nation,” mentioned Pennington County Fire Administrator Jerome Harvey. “Where are they going to lay out on that one when the infrastructure and the necessity for Hill City is now?”

Plans are in place to strategy the City of Hill City for funding, in addition to fundraising alternatives locally.

The ambulance and people who assist hold it operating are turning to the individuals and group it serves.

“We’re very lucky,” Comer mentioned. “We have good tools, now we have good individuals. We simply want a place to put them.”

As for the potential new building, there’s no blueprints but. But Comer estimates a good building together with land close to or in Hill City may price round $750,000.