
KILLDEER — Ann Hafner knew she wanted to become an ambulance volunteer after her sister-in-law, living in another state, died of an asthma attack when the ambulance responding to the call got lost en route.
“I didn’t want that to happen to anybody,” Hafner said.
Several years later, Hafner is living up to that goal as the manager of the Killdeer Area Ambulance Service.
However, she said it is becoming more difficult as the oil industry in the Bakken increasingly rears its booming head on the Killdeer landscape.
“It’s all coming this way,” Hafner said. “We have days when, ‘What’s going to happen next?’”
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