Nine of the 12 volunteers to become LIVES first responders at Sutton Bridge are beginning their training with the life-saving charity.
It’s hoped their work will help residents of a village that has experienced long waits and “no shows” for 999 and urgent ambulance calls.
Coun Chris Brewis, who set up a public meeting with the charity, said: “The intention is that it complements and adds to what’s already being done by the wonderful retained firemen of Long Sutton, who do more calls for ambulance-type emergencies than any other fire station in Lincolnshire.”
The recruits will do basic training in their home village and more advanced training at the LIVES headquarters in Horncastle.
Coun Brewis said: “I am very optimistic about it – it’s good news.”
East Midlands Ambulance Service last year apologised to the family of a man who died after a long wait for an ambulance.
Recent cases involved “no shows” for a toddler, who hurt her head in a fall, and a for a woman in her 90s who fell on a pavement.
A doctor summoned an ambulance for the elderly woman, but she was taken to hospital in a private car when the ambulance failed to turn up three hours later.