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MINNEWAUKAN, N.D. (AP) An emergency medical worker with the Minnewaukan ambulance says the service will shut down Tuesday because of a lack of staff.

Cathy Nord says she is one of two EMTs with the ambulance. She says the other one has been serving in Iraq for the past year.

Nord says the Minnewaukan ambulance once had eight emergency medical technicians, but she says staffing levels now are too low to provide on-call service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Nord says ambulances from Devils Lake, Leeds, Maddock and the Spirit Lake reservation will be sent to Minnewaukan by the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center, starting Tuesday. She says it will take at least 45 minutes for an ambulance to get to the town.

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