The San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion is re­new­ing its call for a tem­po­rary fire sta­tion and emer­gency am­bu­lance ser­vice in the dis­trict, say­ing two re­cent in­ci­dents have re­in­forced the need for faster emer­gency re­sponse and stronger pub­lic safe­ty mea­sures.

In a me­dia re­lease on Mon­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion said the re­cent med­ical emer­gency in­volv­ing for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira at Re­al TV's Croisée stu­dio and an armed rob­bery at a near­by med­ical cen­tre high­light­ed long­stand­ing con­cerns about emer­gency re­sponse and se­cu­ri­ty in the area. The re­lease was signed by the as­so­ci­a­tion's pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer, Dr Joseph Crooks.

The as­so­ci­a­tion is propos­ing a tem­po­rary fire sta­tion with emer­gency am­bu­lance ser­vices to pro­vide cov­er­age be­tween San Juan and St Joseph while land is iden­ti­fied and al­lo­cat­ed for the con­struc­tion of a per­ma­nent fire sta­tion.