By Ryan Marshall

The Frederick News-Post

WALKERVILLE, Md. — Walkersville’s fire company would like Frederick County to provide a second ambulance team to help it meet increased demand for its services, and would like the town to support its request.

The company has one 24-hour ambulance company but needs another, Chief William Cramer told the town’s burgess and commissioners last week.

The town has added several new residential developments in the past several years, as well as a school for children with special needs, and other things that create more calls for service, Cramer said.

The company previously responded to about 130 calls per month, but last month, it received 186, he said.

A change in the county’s dispatch service that bases responses on the time it takes an ambulance t

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