The good news is a plan is in place, so when the calls come in, help will still be there.  With just ten days left until Med Corp, the company that has dispatched fire and EMS calls in Western Mahoning County shuts down its services.  Fire Chiefs from across the area are scrambling to find a new place to handle those calls.  Officials from Berlin, Ellsworth, Jackson, and Milton Townships along with Craig Beach are all looking to Sebring for help.  But leaders there had to evaluate if they could handle the increase in calls.

"What we had to look at was, what kind of burden would this put on our dispatchers?  We have a full time dispatching system.  You know, twenty-four/seven. And the police chief had to make a decision whether we felt we could take on the additional load.", explains John Smith, mayor of Sebring.

After hours of discussion the Sebring Village Council Safety committee along with the police and fire chiefs felt they could help out their neighbors.  They all realize that time is short and an agreement has to be made quickly. 

Sebring's mayor, John Smith, doesn't want anyone's service to be interrupted when Med Corp shuts down.  "On August first, when the switchover is made, those calls would come into Sebring.  And those people that live in the adjoining townships will have quick response because of our dispatching system that's in place today."

The agreement would charge each community about six hundred dollars a month for the services.