A group in Boardman is making one last push to get voters to say ‘yes’ to the fire apparatus levy on Tuesday's ballot. 

The Boardman Lifesaving EMS Group says they’ve conducted a study and found this year Lane hasn’t had ambulances available 271 times when a call came in.

“Its heart breaking… and its struggle some,” Conner O’Halloran, Chairman of the group said. “Are you willing to be of those 271? I mean that could be a severe time sensitive emergency.”

Lane responds to nearly 4,000 calls a year in Boardman Township. They have two ambulances that primarily serve in that area. If a call comes in and those ambulances are busy, they try to have an ambulance come in from a neighboring town. But if those are busy as well, it's not possible to respond.

“Response times can sometimes be 10 or 20 minutes…my wife or myself or my neighbors, the ambulance doesn't get there fast enough and someone passes, that didn't need to,” Terry O’Halloran, who lives in Boardman said. 

If the levy passes, it would bring in millions of dollars for the township to buy three new ambulances. With those dedicated to Boardman emergencies supporters feel response time would improve.

“To me that life is you can't measure that in dollars and cents until it actually hits home,” Terry said. 

Thomas Lambert, the Vice President & Chief of Operations for Lane told 21 News they try to do “the most good for the most amount of people with resources we have.”

He said Lane always has at least nine ambulances out on the road between Boardman, Niles, Weathersfield, Austintown and North Jackson.

“Boardman's kind of faced this question of do I want to increase the ambulances available to Boardman or do I want to run the risk of relying on the private company that has to service other communities,” Conner said. 

The new levy would add a tax for residents. For a 100,000 dollar home, owners will see a $157.50 bill each year.