The USDA invested over $800,000 in rural community infrastructure across 11 Kansas communities. The city of Winfield was one of the beneficiaries of USDA’s investment, receiving just over $125,000. They are using the grant money to buy two new ambulances. Of the five vehicles in their fleet, two were no longer serviceable. This money changed that. There was an electronic wheezing sound coming from the new ambulance when EMS manager Brad Klein shut the back door. When asked to explain, he said that was part of the design. “That’s part of the hydraulic, those hydraulic springs, so liquid springs what they call them. So when we open those back doors, that truck senses those back doors are open, and it will lower to a certain height,” said Klein.
Source: KSN-TV
