8 | AmeriCare Ambulance Service true to his pact with the Lord, arriving in Indiana 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 company 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 complaining about observing a driver stocking his ambulance with certain non-medicinal supplies purchased from the local liquor store. Ott didn’t need inordinate EMS expertise to know this was a gargantuan NO NO. After terminating the driver, he proceeded to inform staff that they would now be subject to mandatory drug screening and the employees 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
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