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On Saturday, Feb. 13, a local ambulance crashed in Bertram while taking a patient with a critical head injury from Hoover’s Valley to a Williamson County emergency room. Crew members, the patient and a family member were uninjured, but the incident left the unit battered and inoperable. Burnet FD/EMS stepped in to continue the transport. Contributed
From icy shuttles and medical calls to an emergency shelter and food distribution, Marble Falls area municipalities and first responders proved to be the heroes during Winter Storm Uri’s week-long wrath on the Highland Lakes.
“I have been involved with public safety for thirty years and can’t remember anything like it,” Marble Falls Area EMS Director Johnny Campbell said of the storm and…