An added risk was the relatively long distance to the nearest ambulance station, he told BBC News Online.
The current Chippenham ambulance station houses 50 staff with 40 in frontline emergency care.
Councillors have rejected plans to site a new ambulance station next to the Borders General Hospital.
Overflowing clinical waste bins, inadequate hygiene instructions and dirty sinks were found at an ambulance station run by a Wiltshire-based trust.
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An appeal will be decided by the Scottish government after plans for a new ambulance station at Borders General Hospital were rejected.
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Evesham's ambulance station in Davies Road is to be sold but the location of a community station in the town is yet to be decided.
The people who are working in the ambulance station, the doctors and nurses in hospital, they are from different background, from different ethnicity and they are treating everybody.
Trust spokesman John Oliver told BBC News the additional staff would be able to provide a "conventional" ambulance station service for the growing local community at the new town of Cranbrook.
Ms Mathieson's family were shown a transcript of the call to her village ambulance station, which confirmed that while the ambulance technician knew about the incident, he was not formally asked to attend.
Crews have also recorded incidents including a man breaking into a Cornwall ambulance station wielding a knife, and seeing a pedestrian produce a gun from his belt and waving it at the ambulance while it was sitting at traffic lights.
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He was concerned that the removal of a number of trees to accommodate the ambulance station would have an adverse visual impact on the area, including views towards the Eildon Hills, as the ambulance station and the existing hospital would be more clearly visible.
Mr Jackson was the chief station officer for the ambulance service at Keswick and Barrow, before working for Hartley's Ice Cream.
An IPCC spokesman said officers at the police station had called an ambulance after they became concerned about Mr Herbert's welfare, and he was pronounced dead at Yeovil District Hospital.
"The facilities next to the station - the former Wiltshire Ambulance Service HQ buildings and the former training college - are surplus to requirements, " he said.
He then walked to nearby Digbeth police station, where officers called for an ambulance and he was taken to hospital.
He said East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) needed to come back with better proposals on station closures and those in Worksop and Retford should stay.
"They had one person in an ambulance and one person in a cop car, " a woman told the station.
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