Firefighters want nursing homes that expand their properties in Carroll County to ease the burden they place on volunteer fire companies by providing ambulance services, according to a rough draft of an updated master plan for emergency fire services in the county.
Yesterday at a meeting with county commissioners, officials from the Carroll County Volunteer Firemen's Association said they wanted the county to require long-term-care facilities such as Fairhaven Retirement Homes in Sykesville and Carroll Lutheran Village near Westminster to have ambulances and paramedics because of the increasing strain they put on the county's 14 fire companies.
The association also told the commissioners that they would like to see five new stations, fully staffed with paid firefighters, opened in the next decade.
