Right now, the income for the station is about $480,000, but expenses come in at just over $600,000 -- leaving them more than $100,000 in debt.
"Our cost of readiness is about $1,000 per call. But we only actually get paid about $500 every time we take someone to the hospital," Penns Valley EMS Chief Jason Brooks said.
No matter what the call may be, they only get paid if they take you to the hospital.
"At this point we cannot charge for anything other than transport. So, if we respond to a patient and we end up for any reason not transporting that patient to the hospital -- we don't get paid for that call," Brooks said.