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Volunteers Fill Gaps in Rural Oregon Emergency Medical Care
Volunteers Fill Gaps in Rural Oregon Emergency Medical Care
Volunteers Fill Gaps in Rural Oregon Emergency Medical Care

Published on: 06/25/2025

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Without a state-mandated tax base, some rural first responders work unpaid. On New Year’s Day in 2023, Erik Kerr met up with a snowmobiling group near Crescent in south-central Oregon, intending to ride through the forest to the rim of Crater Lake. But he never made it that day…

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