 aims to address it by having paramedics regularly check in on people before the health issue becomes an emergency. Marfa Public Radio's Travis Bubenik reports from West Texas. It's a scorching hot summer day in the tiny desert town of Terlingua, Texas, where Susan Martin's the local EMS chief. This is our apparatus bay. We do have the one ambulance. We have a rescue vehicle now that serves kind of as an all-purpose vehicle for us. It's what our community paramedics run out of when they go on calls.