Susquehanna Regional EMS Ambulance Crew - Station 14

Tina Wright Jamie Weider
Scott Hanner Al Scott
Shawn Rice Jason Barrett
Curt Welter BJ Bryer

 

 

Old Lycoming Twp EMS History

1953 Old Lycoming took delivery of it's first ambulance a 1941 Cadillac.

1984 WAASC was formed. Included: First Ward Fire Company(South Williamsport), Duboistown Station 8, Old Lycoming, & Williamsport Hospital. Routines were run a rotating basis between the three station; when there was an over flow of routines at the hospital.

1994 Hire paid EMTs 7 days a week from 6:30 am- 10:30pm to provide emergency medical and routine services. Since the station had a difficult time getting EMT volunteers to respond to calls.

2002 Paid weekend staff was dropped.

June 27, 2007 WASS became SREMS (Susquehanna Regional Emergency Medical Service).

Paramedics were stationed on ambulances no longer placed on just squad units (a type of vehicle unable to transport patients). The ambulance held one EMT and one Paramedic before it had two EMTs.

Fire Department Gets First Ambulance

 

The first fire department based ambulance service in Lycoming County was est. 1937 by the Williamsport Bureau of Fire which was the contract for ambulance service in the City of Williamsport until 1985 when the contract was awarded to the Williamsport Hospital and Medical Center.

Before The EMS System

Until the 1940's much of emergency medical car & transport in Lycoming County was rendered by local funeral homes which had vehicles capable of carrying patients in a horizontal manner. These mortuary based ambulances included C.M. Zellers in Montgomery, Crouse's in Williamsport, McCarty/Thomas in Hughesville, Kelchner's of Jersey Shore and Knight's Funeral

Crouse's Funeral Home operated a private ambulance service in the 1940's. Their first ambulance was a 1946 Studabacker. This service continued until the 1950's when retired motorcycle police officer Raymond E. Bohartz began his private ambulance service housed on High Street in Williamsport. Although few early records exit of these services. Knight's Funeral Home is believed to have been the only ambulance in the city of Williamsport during the 1936 flood. While Knight's initially provided ambulance transport as a public service, at the time this service ended patients were charged $4 per mile.

Ambulance Monthly Reports

  Total Calls Emergency Refusals Transports
October 97 15 6 76
July 2009 86 6 6 74
June 2009 86 6 6 74
May 2009 115 14 3 98
         
March 2009 103 5 3 95
February 2009 87 5 2 80
January 2009 106 11 3 92
December 2008 99 5 5 89

 

 

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