Macon County Public Safety • Emergency Medical Services

Macon County Emergency Medical Services or EMS proudly protects 30-60,000 people living in an area of 517 square miles. We operate out of 3 stations (Franklin, Highlands, Nantahala) that protect a primarily commercial area.

Our department is a public department whose members are on a paid status. We are a paramedic level service providing both ALS (Advanced Life Support) and convalescent service to the citizens and visitors of Macon County, NC.

Macon County EMS operates a county-wide ALS ambulance service at the NC EMT-Paramedic level. We currently have 35 full-time employees and 17 part-time employees working out of three ambulance bases: One in Franklin, one in Highlands, and one in the Nantahala Community.

We provide emergency and convalescent transports both in and out-of-county within restricted distances. Macon County EMS responded to 5432 calls in the year 2011 - a 4% increase from 2010.

We operate a child safety seat program and we are the authorized distribution agent in Macon County for North Carolina "Do Not Resuscitate" order forms.

EMS Continuing Education