SVAS - At Your Service

SALISBURY — The Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service (SVAS) is an all-volunteer organization whose members are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond to emergencies in the community.SVAS responded to 30 calls in November. These included five motor vehicle accidents, five calls for difficulty breathing, two falls, two traumatic injuries, two seizures and two calls for a sick person. There was one call each for chest pain, cardiac, hemorrhage and psychiatric. Four calls were to assist Lakeville Hose Co. — one for a structure fire and the others for activated CO and fire alarms. One of the calls resulted in a refusal to be transported. Three of the calls were for residents of Noble Horizons.There were five days when the ambulance crew was dispatched two times and four days when the crew was dispatched three times. This monthly column by Lakeville Journal copy editor and ambulance squad volunteer Tara Kelly is an update on EMS activities.

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