The fate of one of Pulaski County’s ambulances remains up in the air. The ambulance was significantly damaged in an accident on Christmas Eve.
EMS Director Bryan Corn told the county commissioners last week that it’s been evaluated by its original builder, Arrow Manufacturing. “They can fix it,” he said. “Now, they’re just kind of getting with the insurance company, and the insurance company’s kind of fighting on the number. Arrow says, ‘About $52,000, we can fix the truck.’ If you look at the estimate, about $25,000 of that is to tear the inside of that truck apart and push the wall out, which the insurance company state was never pushed in. Well, it is. When you take it to the professional, it is.”
Corn said that the last he’d heard was that the insurance adjuster was doing his own parts estimate. “I kind of sent them a not-so-nice email awhile back because it’s like, we’ve been playing this game for months now,” he told the commissioners. “I’m having trouble getting the trucks that I have in for maintenance because we have three, so I don’t have the extra one to put things in, so trying to keep the upkeep and all that. So I kind of sent them an email and was like, ‘We need to get this figured out.'”
Corn estimates a new ambulance would cost about $160,000.
