Emergency Services Director Begins Work

Jasper County has hired an Emergency Services Director. Ellette Jackson began work Monday as Emergency Services Director, and as such will oversee the operations of the local Emergency Medical Service (EMS), and Fire Services.

Jarrett Slocumb is fire chief, and will remain in that capacity, but Mr. Jackson is ultimately in charge of both departments.

Mr. Jackson said his first priority is to the taxpayers of Jasper County. No stranger to emergency medicine, Mr. Jackson says he probably has more than 50,000 calls under his belt. He is a paramedic, and has been in EMS for more than 15 years. He comes to Monticello from Glynn County, but has worked numerous other places, including the ambulance service Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

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Mr. Jackson said he already owned a home in McDonough, so he plans to move there. He most recently worked at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has been a McIntosh County Sheriff Department and Darien City Police SWAT Medic Volunteer.

Mr. Jackson holds numerous certifications, and has served as an EMS director elsewhere. He was instrumental in receiving more than $100,000 in grant monies for EMS equipment and training in his first year as an EMS director.

Mr. Jackson has been a National Registry EMT-P since 1999, and a Georgia Paramedic since 1999. He has completed numerous advanced training courses, and is instructor certified in many of them.