Bill Adams

• The court gave Lyon County Ambulance Service Director Bill Adams the authority to proceed with an investigation into the construction of a new building to house the ambulance service, Lyon County Rescue and the Lyon County Jail.

Adams has served as director of the ambulance service since 2004.

"We are at the point of filling the ambulance building to its max," he told the court.Supplies, documents, vehicles and personnel are crowding the building, which was built in 1977.

After its completion, the county turned over ownership of the building to the ambulance service itself, he said.

Since March 2006, he added, the ambulance board has been discussing the potential for a new building.

Bringing other entities in to share a building, he said, may make more funds available for its construction.

"It looks like the rescue squad, the jailer and Lyon County EMS are willing to go together and ask you all if you would build us a building," he said.

Adams said he was in contact with contractors and individuals who may have land to offer for the new building.

The court authorized him to continue his discussions.

Lyon County EMS Director Bill Adams (left) and ambulance board Chairman Rod Murphy (right) presented Phoenix Awards to (from left) Jessica Hughes, Kimberly Hughes, Tandy Beth Redd, Amanda Knight and (not pictured) Nicholas Burton.
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EMS Director Bill Adams said the crew members were eating dinner shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, June 29, when they were paged to a residence on report of a man in cardiac arrest, flat on his back and unresponsive.

When they arrived, they found the man had no heartbeat and no pulse, but the EMS crew used their knowledge and expertise to bring the man back to life.

By the time he was brought to the hospital, he was able to wink at one of the staff members and squeeze her hand.

He is now in a nursing home, Adams said.The victim suffered some memory loss and requires some assistance walking, but is otherwise all right.

"We're truly surprised he's come out as well as he has," said Adams.

The Phoenix Award program was adopted by the ambulance service several years ago, he said, and the phoenix will appear on shoulder patches of new uniforms for EMS personnel.

Adams is the son of Lyon County Ambulance Service Director Bill Adams and his wife, Lisa.

Lyon County Ambulance Service director Bill Adams credits the efforts of responders during the storm. –Bobbie Foust/ The Herald Ledger
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When Bill Adams took the helm at the Lyon County Ambulance Service five years ago, it was within 24 hours of closing its doors.
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Because the service is solvent, the board was able to tell Adams to do what he had to do during the January ice storm. "I have a very good board," Adams said. "One of my board members called me when this got started and pretty much opened the door. They said, 'Bill, do what you've gotta do. Be concerned about our money, but if you need something, tell us.'" What he had to do amounted to $35,000 in wages and $21,000 in overtime for three crews who worked around the clock. It also required Adams himself to man a chainsaw in front of the ambulances cutting a path for them to get through to patients. "I have a very good, dedicated crew, and when the disaster hit, we brought in another crew," he said. "We had three ambulances and three crews and each one had a paramedic onboard. We handled approximately 80 to 85 runs; we did not miss any, and we were able to handle mutual aid for other counties as well. "We were very lucky and very blessed; we had no fatalities during that storm," Adams said. Adams downplayed his own role, and credited the heroic efforts performed by the Rescue Squad, road department, first responders and volunteers. "I was lucky," he said.
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Adams credited ambulance crews for saving lives not only during the storm but also routinely. "They are very dedicated," he said.

The state building inspector has said that because the ambulance service is a medical emergency service it should "be the last building to fall" should a major earthquake shake the region, said Bill Adams, ambulance service director, noting that this region is in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. "We have got to be able to respond to the public, and if we are underneath rubble, we can't get out, and we can't service the public," Adams said.
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"It's a good building; I think it was built in 1995, and it was designed for Trover Clinic," Adams said. " ... We have been looking for a building for well over five years, and this is the closest that we have found that goes into the design we need. I usually have four people on staff 24-7, and so each one is going to get a bedroom." The building on Fairview was constructed when the service was established in 1977 and has become inadequate. "We had an office down there, and we had one room for bedroom, kitchen and TV, and we had one bathroom for the staff," Adams said.

Bill Adams , Lead EMS Internal Auditor

Bill Adams, Lead EMS Internal Auditor

About 30 minutes later, at 4:30 p.m., Lyon County Deputy Sheriff Bill Adams caught the driver as he tried to drive through the hole he had made in the fence.

After charges were filed, the boy was released into the custody of his parents pending a court appearance.

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