Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RALPH ANSAMI
BESSEMER — Beacon Ambulance and Aspirus Ironwood Hospital officials are trying to come up with a long-term plan to retain ambulance service in Gogebic and Iron Counties.
Gogebic County Emergency Management Director Jim Loeper told the county board of supervisors Wednesday that Beacon Ambulance “is in jeopardy of closing for a bunch of different reasons.”
The chief reason, Loeper said, it that Beacon has lost many employees in the past six months and is facing a personnel shortage.
Beacon, under the ownership of the Lawrence Kutz family, of Hurley, has...
