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true to his pact with the Lord, arriving in In-
diana with his wife as well as a new sense of
hope, faith and purpose.
Joined with a business partner, Ott took
leadership of his father’s ambulance com-
pany in 2003, but this transition led to the
confronting of other challenges. Ott had
only been on the job for a few days when
he fielded a call from someone complain-
ing about observing a driver stocking his
ambulance with certain non-medicinal sup-
plies purchased from the local liquor store.
Ott didn’t need inordinate EMS expertise
to know this was a gargantuan NO NO. Af-
ter terminating the driver, he proceeded to
inform staff that they would now be subject
to mandatory drug screening and the em-
ployees simply walked off the job, never to
return. This left only Ott and his business
partner to run the business. In the weeks
that followed, Ott scrambled. He hired new
staff, converted one ambulance into a mobile
