THERMOPOLIS — After 80 years of service to Hot Springs County, Wyoming, the Mortimore Ambulance Service is going off duty.

The family will focus on its funeral home instead, and Cody Regional Health will be the new emergency medical service for the area.

The Mortimore family has been serving the community with emergency medical service since just after World War II when patriarch Max Mortimore took over the funeral home in Thermopolis.

By 1949, Max had built the current funeral home on Arapaho Street and then, out of necessity, began an ambulance service.

Max’s son Clark, grandsons Mike and Mark, and great-grandson Brennon have all worked as emergency staff over the past eight decades.

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