In his time as a state trooper, Baldwin County Commissioner Matt McKenzie noticed that the county’s primary emergency medical service provider, MedStar EMS, struggled to keep up with number of calls it receives.

“There’s times that they’re okay,” McKenzie previously told the Press-Register Lede. “But there’s some times that they’re really stretched hard on it. Especially with the summer coming here, it’s going to pick up a lot, with all the tourists.”