PIPERS
GAP
RESCUE
SQUAD
SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1974
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| PGRS HISTORY | EMS HISTORY | ON-THIS-DAY |
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"1974, The Beginning" Pipers Gap Rescue Squad was
established in 1974 to provide Emergency Medical Care and
Transportation, starting with |
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What is Pipers Gap Rescue Squad Today? We are currently operating
three
Advanced Life Support ambulances, one Medium Rescue Truck, one Light
Duty Rescue/Utility Truck, and a Rescue ATV. We provide Emergency Medical Care
at the ALS / Paramedic level. All members are certified in Emergency
Vehicle Operations, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and as an
Emergency Medical Technician at a minimum. The squad has 2 stations. Station 1, the
main crew hall, consisting of a four-bay garage, classroom, and day room. Station 2 is a three-bay building located
on Highway 58 near Mt. Olivet Church. |
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History of EMS Julian Stanley Wise never forgot when, as a nine-year-old Roanoker, he stood by helplessly as two men drowned when their canoe capsized on the Roanoke River. He vowed then that he would organize a group of volunteers who could be trained in lifesaving. He did. In 1928 he and his crew of N&W Railway workers became the first volunteer rescue squad in America, still known as the Roanoke Lifesaving and First Aid Crew, to use lifesaving rescue and first aid techniques on victims. Later, they were the first to use iron lungs during the polio epidemics that struck the country. They pioneered the Holger method of lifesaving and modern day cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A National Museum, "To the Rescue", has been built in Roanoke so that it can't be forgotten that the rescue squad movement started in Virginia,.........Southwest Virginia. A scholarship has also been formed in the memory of Mr. Wise for young men and women that are involved in EMS. To learn more about this, here to visit the VAVRS website. |
"There
is no comprehensive history of the safety movement;
someday it will be written and we shall find it a romance of high adventure. It
will tell a story of desperate struggles against enormous odds, against nature's
relentless forces, against the perils of scientific discovery, against the
little understood working of change, and, sad to say, against
ignorance of life saving methods so often improperly applied. Wars come and go
in the world's history, but the war against accidents must go on forever."
Julian Stanley Wise, April 1938
First Aider, Vol. 2, Book 4, Page 6
