Emergency medical workers are some of the most important people in the community and one local EMT is being honored, again.

A Community Ambulance employee has earned the National Star of Life Award for a second straight year.

Jon Hartmeyer, Field Services Supervisor for Community Ambulance says:

"It's a very high honor, to win a national award, we've done that 2 years in a row, last year we had one of our paramedics that won the award, this year Troy Ball won the award for over 14 years of service."

Ball's line of work is all-encompassing and he's one out of only 108 in the entire country to recieve this award.

"Troy's been with the company since day one, since we opened back in 1994. Troy has worked in different capacities here, he's kind of a do-all person, he can dispatch, has trained in our dispatch center, he's an intermediate EMT working 24-hour trucks mostly," says Hartmeyer.

Hartmeyer also says Ball's award comes as part of many activies commemorating national E.M.S. Week nationwide.