Taylor County EMS

Are you licensed to drive a school bus? If you are, then we want YOU to come and join our Wylie family!

🚌Pay range $23.75-$36.71 per hour
🚌Employee Health Insurance Included
🚌Must have a Commercial Drivers License with a P and S endorsement. (Clean Driving Record)

Contact Tommy Vaughn at [email protected] if you are interested in applying!

With school starting next week this is your friendly reminder that the only spot in the entire Wylie, Jim Ned, Merkel, and Trent school districts you could safely and legally pass a stopped school bus would be on US 83/84 and Interstate 20, and ONLY if you're on the opposite side of the divided highway! Remember folks, these are all our kids on these buses, treat them accordingly.

Come enjoy a great annual show and support your local volunteer fire department!

We will start scheduling interviews next week as we add 12 more full-time positions to our TEAM this fall! Get your applications in today!!

www.taylorcountyems.org/employment

Volunteers from Jim Ned, Tye Fire Department, View Volunteer Fire Department and Lawn Volunteer Fire Department are being hosted by Potosi Volunteer Fire Department and Taylor County EMS for extrication and technical rescue training through TEEX. Hands on training to better serve our communities.

This week we celebrate National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) week to honor the dedication, commitment, and sacrifice of emergency medical service professionals around the country.

This , we want to express our deepest gratitude to our incredible communities for your unwavering support of our staff. Your kind words and cheers fuel their passion to serve and keep Taylor County a model for others to follow.

Together, we make a difference!

Thank you Taylor County Texas Commissioners Court for having us this morning and for officially proclaiming this week as National Emergency Medical Services Week in Taylor County! We are honored for the recognition of our passion to serve others and blessed to be supported by the communities we serve!

Happy Nurses Week to all those out there on the front line making a difference! Although we may pick on each other from time to time, we are very appreciative of all the work our fellow “doctor helpers” do! 😁

Employment | Taylor County EMS Taylor County EMS is a non-profit community based ambulance service that serves Taylor County outside the Abilene City Limits. While our primary focus is 9-1-1 services, we do occasionially provide non-emergency transports and EMS standby for special events. If you are interested in becoming part o...

Have the ongoing storms and flooding caused damage to your property?

Report damage to homes and business here: damage.tdem.texas.gov

Details provided through the self-reporting survey helps inform officials of community resource needs.

Many folks have asked what we do when there’s severe weather threatening our area. If our stations look like they could be directly impacted, we send our ambulances throughout the county, out of harm’s way. We closely monitor local weather information to make sure that the crews on duty and as many ambulances as possible are moved to safety so we can respond in the event of widespread destruction.

Thank you to everyone who showed up yesterday to support our local Taylor County Sheriff's Officers Association family! Over 800 hamburger plates sold!

Taylor County Sheriff's Officers Association is having a hamburger fundraiser tomorrow at the Sheriff’s Office 450 Pecan Street in Abilene staring at 11AM. Proceeds are going toward medical and funeral expenses for the wife of a deputy that recently passed. Please come support!

The citizens of rural Taylor County got a huge WIN today! The Commissioners Court voted 4 to 1 in favor of selecting Taylor County EMS to continue providing EMS in rural Taylor County for the next five years with THREE full-time staffed ambulances!!

Words cannot express the deepest love and appreciation we have for OUR communities that came out strong to support us. Taylor County residents, first responders, and so many others took time out of their very busy lives to make phone calls, write letters, share information, show up to meetings, and speak publicly in support of our organization and we are forever thankful!

A special thank you to our citizen Board of Directors - Joey Light, Rochelle Johnson, and Dr. Victor Hudman - for championing and advocating our vision of superior emergency medical services in rural Taylor County.

Finally, thank you to the members of the Commissioner's Court, County Judge Phil Crowley, Pct. 1 Commissioner Randy Williams, Pct. 2 Commissioner Kyle Kendrick, and Pct. 3 Commissioner Brad Birchum, that voted in favor of elevating the level of emergency medical services that your constituents depend on and for entrusting our organization to continue being the provider of those services as we have over the past 34 years!

We heard the phrase "don't let us down" a couple of times this morning after the vote. We promise with everything we have that we will continue working tirelessly to make sure that never happens. So to OUR communities, exciting things are coming! Between now and September 30th we will be transitioning from ONE full-time staffed ambulance to THREE on October 1st!! Our plan is to strategically station ambulances in the communities of Merkel, Caps, and Tuscola for the best geographic coverage of rural Taylor County's nearly 800 square miles. We are incredibly blessed and can't wait to share this journey with you! Thank you again for your trust and support!!

Next Tuesday 4/23 at 9am, Taylor County Commissioners Court will be deciding who will provide ambulance service to rural Taylor County. We cannot tell you how much we appreciate all of your support by coming to the last meeting and contacting members of the Commissioner's Court.

You're invited to join us again on Tuesday to show support for YOUR local community based non-profit ambulance service!

For more information on this topic, we've published a Letter to Residents on our website, www.taylorcountyems.org/letter-to-residents

Thank you all again for your continuing support of keeping LOCAL EMS!

Hoppy EASTER from all of us at Taylor County EMS!

Taylor County Commissioners Court took no action today regarding contract award. While the proposal MetroCare/AMR submitted was scored higher for value, Commissioners Randy Williams and Kyle Kendrick indicated that there were more questions raised that needed to be answered before they make a decision. It is anticipated that these questions will be answered before Commissioners Court on April 23rd and will likely be on the agenda again for April 23rd.

We urge all of our supporters to please reach out to your elected officials and let them hear your voice! Just because a company bids the lowest price does not make them the best fit for OUR communities! We are so appreciative and thankful for those that have already contacted their officials and came to the meeting today! We have another month to let these guys know OUR communities want a locally owned and operated non-profit ambulance service that's been here for 34 years!

County Judge Phil Crowley
Ph: (325) 261-2728
[email protected]

Precinct 1 Commissioner Randy Williams
Ph: (325) 665-0775
[email protected]

Precinct 2 Commissioner Kyle Kendrick
Ph: (325) 668-0061
[email protected]

Precinct 3 Commissioner Brad Birchum
Ph: (325) 386-8171
[email protected]

Precinct 4 Commissioner Chuck Statler
Ph: (325) 669-6266
[email protected]

Today is the day! Taylor County Commissioners Court will meet at 9am this morning to select who will continue providing emergency medical service to rural Taylor County. You can watch live on Taylor County Texas Commissioners Court page, but we'd love to have you in person!

Our staff and board members are not allowed to lobby the Commissioners Court regarding the bid or we risk disqualification, so we rely on members of the general public to show support by contacting their commissioners and speaking during public comment. Contact information is listed below, we pray for a good outcome this morning so we may keep serving OUR local communities! Thank you for all the love and support you have shown to us, we're fighting hard to remain your locally owned non-profit ambulance service!

County Judge Phil Crowley
Ph: (325) 261-2728
[email protected]

Precinct 1 Commissioner Randy Williams
Ph: (325) 665-0775
[email protected]

Precinct 2 Commissioner Kyle Kendrick
Ph: (325) 668-0061
[email protected]

Precinct 3 Commissioner Brad Birchum
Ph: (325) 386-8171
[email protected]

Precinct 4 Commissioner Chuck Statler
Ph: (325) 669-6266
[email protected]

Earlier this year, the Taylor County Commissioner’s Court solicited bids for ambulance service from outside agencies. Those bids, to include ours, have been reviewed and the Taylor County Commissioner’s Court will be deciding who will continue to provide ambulance service to rural Taylor County outside the city limits of Abilene this coming Tuesday, March 26th at 9am in Commissioners Court (Taylor County Plaza, 400 Oak Street, 3rd Floor). This includes the areas of Trent, Merkel, Tye, View, Caps, Elm Valley, Moro, Bradshaw, Shep, Tuscola, Lawn, Ovalo, Buffalo Gap, and Potosi.

For over 34 years, Taylor County EMS has been providing emergency medical services to rural Taylor County as a non-profit community based ambulance service and it is our desire to continue providing these critical services to OUR communities!

It is our understanding that large, national/global, for-profit corporations have expressed a desire to expand their footprint into rural Taylor County. These corporations are not locally owned and are more vested in their shareholders than in the communities they serve. For over three decades, we have been supporting your communities, your little league teams, your bands, your athletic programs, your volunteer fire departments, in every way that we could - and we want to continue doing so because your communities are OUR communities! 52% of our staff live in these rural communities that we serve and of those, 70% also serve on your local volunteer fire departments. Now, we come to you to ask for your support by telling our elected officials on Tuesday that you want Taylor County EMS to continue providing emergency medical care in your communities.

If selected, we anticipate being able to have 2-3 full-time staffed ambulances strategically placed throughout rural Taylor County in the communities of Merkel, Tuscola, and Caps which will improve 911 response times and patient outcomes in those that are the most critically ill or injured. Currently this is being done with one full-time staffed ambulance and one on-call ambulance. County officials have finally recognized the need to expand ambulance service throughout the county and are making progress toward that goal. But that goal is not achieved by increasing the number of ambulances, only for them to be responding out of Abilene like in years past.

So join us at the meeting on Tuesday morning and make your voice heard during public comment or reach out to your elected county commissioner. If you have questions, feel free to send us a message!

Thank you always for your support! ❤️

We put our new ambulance in service today, Unit # 202! We’re so grateful for the opportunity to serve OUR rural Taylor County communities!

We’re proud to have had Bob with us for so many wonderful years! Happy birthday Bob!!

Prayers are answered in so many different ways! Our Panhandle Response Team woke up to some much needed precipitation falling over the fire areas, giving favorable conditions to put better containment on these fires.

Keep the Panhandle in your prayers as this precipitation period will be short with temperatures and winds picking back up this weekend!

Taylor County EMS has one ambulance and one Medical Unit Leader deployed to the Panhandle as part of Texas Emergency Medical Task Force Wildland Fire Support. While many of these communities have suffered catastrophic devastation, they are resilient and we are honored to be working along side them! Say a prayer for these communities and their first responders trying to get a handle on it.

Here’s a sneak peek at one of the two new ambulances we have being built at Frazer, Ltd. in Houston, Texas with a March delivery date! 😍🥰😍 We can’t wait to get these new units in service to better serve our rural Taylor County communities!