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The Park Slope Volunteer Ambulance Corps, or PSVAC, is a community organization that provides emergency medical response, rescue operations, patient assessment, treatment, and transport in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. [1] Since 1992, members have responded to over ten thousand calls for help. [citation needed]
The American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, [1] also known as the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, was an organization started in London, England, in the fall of 1914 by Richard Norton, a noted archeologist and son of Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton .
The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) is America's first minority volunteer ambulance corps, founded in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York in 1988 by James Robinson. BSVAC- (pron. Beesvac) was established organically in response to the lack of citywide first aid services coming to the area. [1]
In the old days, a volunteer ambulance corps was just that — all volunteers. But in more recent years, with a lack of volunteers and increases in the number of skills needed, many now pay some ...
Dashiell Hammett – U.S. Army ambulance driver who was attached to the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps and was subsequently afflicted with the Spanish flu. Ernest Hemingway [13] – volunteer Red Cross Motor Corps in Italy. Robert Hillyer [13] – volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. Sidney Howard [13] – volunteer American Field Service.
The Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corps, also known as the LVAC & simply as Lancaster Ambulance is a not-for-profit (501c3) EMS agency in Lancaster, New York. The Corps primary response area is the Village & Town of Lancaster, the Village of Depew and the Village & Town of Alden, New York. It also responds to areas via mutual aid agreements and ...
Draper Kauffman. Rear Admiral Draper Laurence Kauffman (4 August 1911 – 18 August 1979) [2] was an American underwater demolition expert, who served during the 1960s as 44th Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. During World War II, he organized the first U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Units from which the SEALs and Navy Explosive ...
The Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps was initially formed in the early 1970s to augment the existing emergency medical response, which involved a police officer picking up a doctor from then- St. Mary's Hospital and driving them to the location of the call. The corps was incorporated in 1971 with fourteen members and an ambulance purchased ...