General News: Hearing Resolves Ambulance Issue for Now
December 03, 2009
The New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps has gotten the green light to respond to requests for service outside of the town limits after a hearing in front of an Orange county supreme court judge.
The ambulance corps had faced an order from the New York State department of health telling it to “cease and desist” responding to requests for service outside of New Windsor. But according to the ambulance corps’ attorney, Brad Pinsky, an attorney representing the department of health at a hearing on Wednesday morning, told judge Robert Onofry that the ambulance corps had “misinterpreted” the term “cease and desist” and that, in fact, the entire issue was moot. The department of health did not return calls seeking an explanation of its position.
For Pinsky, the hearing ended simply. “We wanted the cease and desist order gone, and it is gone,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “Now there’s no restriction on them responding.”
Pinsky said that the health department investigation into the complaints about the New Windsor Ambulance Corps working outside its jurisdiction is on-going but he believes that the corps will be found to be working within the law. (See related story.) The investigation includes the Cornwall Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which has issued many of the calls for service to the New Windsor corps.
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