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America’s EMT Shortage Has Rural Communities Relying on Unpaid Volunteers
Thereโs a crisis unfolding in rural America. While big cities are getting bigger, small town USA is shrinking. If you live in one of these rural communities, chances are youโre poorer and sicker than your urban counterpart. Across the country, towns that have less people have even less first responders Oceana, West Virginia is one of those towns. Itโs surrounded by logging jobs and coal mines that provide the main source of income for the roughly 1,300 people that live there.