The Killingworth Ambulance Association canceled its annual EMT class, scheduled to begin August 19, because of insufficient enrollment but will offer another course beginning in January, 2020.

“We did not have enough students,” KAA vice-president Marguerite Haaga said of the decision. “We would like a minimum of six. It makes the class more interesting.”

Haaga teaches the class with her husband, Mike, the KAA’s Chief of Service.

Initially, five students registered for the course, due to be completed by Thanksgiving, but that figure dropped to four after one person bowed out. A decision to cancel was made, and e-mails notifying those who had enrolled of the change were sent out Friday, Aug. 16 – or three days before the course was to begin.

The move marks the second time within the past two years that an EMT class had to be scrapped, and Haaga said that’s unusual. But she had a ready explanation.

“There are a lot more EMT classes that are offered in the area than in the past,” she said.

The KAA currently has 22 active EMTs.

The next EMT course will be offered on Jan. 20, 2020, and will be held “no matter what,” Haaga said. In addition, Haaga will conduct an EMR and EMT refresher class starting on Thursday, Nov. 7, and running through Sunday, Nov. 10.