The first full - time paramedic was hired after the controversial death in 2014 of Godfrey Williams who died from a heart attack after waiting for more than an hour for an ambulance to arrive from a station 10 minutes away .
Godfrey Williams is a Skidegate band councillor .
The first full - time paramedic was hired after the controversial death in 2014 of Godfrey Williams , a Skidegate band councillor , who died from a heart attack after waiting for more than an hour for an ambulance to arrive from a station 10 minutes away .