ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Onslow County is expanding its Community Paramedic Response Initiative with new resources and procedures.

Wendi Mancuso, assistant chief of community paramedicine, spoke to WITN about the new implementations and why they were needed.

Onslow County EMS received around 1,200 non-emergency calls last year. While that’s not as many as emergent calls, Mancuso says it’s still frequent enough to warrant change.

Onslow County showed WITN one of its four new quick response vehicles for community paramedics.

“We respond out to people in the community who need assistance,” Wendi Mancuso, assistant chief of community paramedicine, told WITN. “We bridge a lot of the gaps, so if someone needs like durable medical equipment, a primary care provider, or if they need medica

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