To the Editor:
Imagine you’re an Easton EMT. You’re on a 12-hour shift. You’ve just come back to base after helping people as their house burns. A car accident. A fall. Or even just finishing up a CPR training class.
Should you then be forced to wash up and continue your shift in a less-than-ideal space? Because that’s what some people in Easton believe.
After months, years, of negotiations, planning, bidding, and meeting, a small but vocal group in town has come out and decided to stonewall the process to put it on hold. Cheaper furniture, they say. Lower-quality infrastructure. Less comfortable beds for those 12-hour shifts.
We know this is a $4-million-plus project. We also know that it’s not going to raise our taxes or mill rate. That this group is literally misleading the community. Other letter writers have supplied the evidence. Who will want to volunteer in a town where people do that? Swoop in at the eleventh hour to nitpick at what is rightfully — and economically — the answer to the EMS building issues?
Now imagine again you’re that Easton EMT. You get another call. You do your job, and come back to base.
Vote yes on Tuesday to make sure our heroes have the base they deserve. After all, that call may have been at your house.
Debbi Barer
Easton
