By Asia Simone Burns

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — For years, critics of DeKalb County’s ambulance service have said its response times are too slow and that risks the lives of people across the state’s fourth most populace county.

Those concerns were validated late last year by a consultant’s review that was critical of the ambulance service and DeKalb’s private ambulance provider, American Medical Response. The report said AMR was not deploying adequate resources to handle the county’s needs and was well below national standards for response times on life-threatening emergencies.

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