Nacogdoches EMS receives grants for EMT training, new ambulance

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - The Nacogdoches Emergency Medical Services received two new grants to help grow its program.

One of the grants will fund scholarships in the spring of 2027 to provide EMT training for ten people. The second grant will fund a new ambulance for the county. Jonathon Walker, education coordinator and EMS director for Nacogdoches County, said funding is getting harder to receive and that these grants were needed.

“We get on the roads, we drive miles after miles after miles,” Walker said. “Wear and tear happens. You have to have to have oil changes. You have to have tires replaced, and eventually you got to get the entire car replaced. So the same thing applies to an ambulance. With all the driving we do all around the county, taking care of the citizens, eventually we have to get the ambulance replaced. And with a grant like this, it just makes that easier.”

Walker said that the last time the county replaced an ambulance was six or seven years ago.