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Advocates of the current service say “flaws” in the new contract would diminish the Emergency Medical Services systems, and called the diminished standards “grossly irresponsible,” “negligent” and “profoundly hurtful” in the wake of the worst mass casualty in Hawaiʻi’s modern history.

Officials with the Maui County Paramedics Association say it’s their goal to get stroke patients to the hospital within an hour of the onset of their symptoms, so that patients may be treated aggressively.

Maui medics had more than 14,000 requests for ambulance response last year. They serve a tri-isle community with a total of 11 ground ambulances and one medevac helicopter.

Emergency responders assisted with two separate incidents on Wednesday in which individuals were pulled from waters off of Maui. In the first incident, authorities say an 83-year-od woman was pulled from the water fronting the Hale Pau Hana in Kihei.

The bicyclist, described as an elderly male, struck a guardrail and fell about 10 feet down a ditch, according to accident reports. Authorities say man was medivaced to Maui Memorial Medical Center with chest injuries and multiple traumatic injuries to his extremities.