Sussex County paramedics have a new station near Lewes to call home. For Robert Stuart, director of Sussex County EMS, the new station gives paramedics a leg up on the traffic that the area deals with in the summer.
"I think the single biggest thing were are going to enjoy coming out of this station is to be able to respond better for calls to this area," Stuart said. "We should be able to respond better to calls in this area. Route 1 has become a virtual parking lot on occasion, especially during the summer months, and it became very difficult getting out of our previous station because of traffic."
Sussex County has nine EMS stations covering the entire 936 square miles of the county, or one for every 104 square miles. In 2016, medics from the old station responded to more than 2,600 calls with an average response time of just over eight minutes.