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To help familiarize you with this fine
neighborhood, please read our brief history about Stuarts
Draft, VA. It's interesting.
The Stuarts Draft Rscue Squad passed a
milestone on May 15, 2000. The squad completed its 30th
year of operations and began its 31st. This
event was marked by a celebration on June 3rd,
2000. Please take some time and read the brief summary
of the first 30 years of SDRS history. For your
convenience, the history is broken down into blocks of
10 years each.
The Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad began with a community meeting on
October 23, 1969 with the formation of a steering
committee. The early part of 1970 was spent in
recruiting members and training them in
Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Standard First
Aid, and Advanced First Aid. Twenty-three members
were certified on March 5, 1970. The first ambulance
was purchased in February 1970, a 1966 GMC Carryall.
A "Fund Drive" for $35,000 was started on April 4, 1970, for
the purpose of purchasing land, building a rescue
squad building, training costs, uniforms, and other
necessary equipment and supplies. The first officers
of the rescue squad were elected April 9, 1970. On
May 15th, 1970, the Virginia Department
of Health certified the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad
to start emergency operations. The emergency phone,
337-2222, rang for the first time on May 21st,
1970, to transport a chest pain patient to
Waynesboro Community Hospital.
Ground was broken on August 30, 1970, for a 60 x 70-foot,
combination rescue- squad /community center.
Construction began September 5th and was
completed in the spring of 1971.
January 1971 dawned the first full year of squad operations. An
article in the Waynesboro News-Virginian on Friday
January 8, 1971 asks for volunteer block layers to
help with the interior construction of the squad
building. The majority of 1971 was spent in training
classes, recruiting new members, and completing the
new squad building.
A junior
rescue squad was started in January 1972, with 4
young men. Current SDRS president Gary Radford was
one of the young men. SDRS delivered its first baby
on Saturday April 15, 1972, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
H. Sharkey.
The majority of calls that SDRS ran in
the 1970?s would be of the class that most EMS providers
call "taxi runs." Most of these calls involved
transporting someone to the doctor?s office or home from
the hospital. There were of course the serious calls for
Motor Vehicle Accidents and other serious injuries and
illnesses, but these were definitely the exception and not
the rule.
SDRS experienced a major crisis in 1977.
Personnel come and go from volunteer EMS on a regular basis.
Demands of home, job, and family along with rescue squad
commitments take a heavy toll on everyone. In 1977, internal
strife and outside obligations almost caused the disbanding
of the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad. Meetings were held to
consider dissolving the organization. Membership had dropped
to 17 members. Several articles and editorials in local
newspapers along with an aggressive membership drive, saved
the day. Membership climbed and SDRS was back on track.
Regional EMS councils were started in
Virginia in 1978. Along with the councils came coordinated
training, standards of operating, and EMT certification
mandates. Although EMT certification was available in
Virginia as early as 1971, it was not necessary to have an
EMT on the ambulance until 1978. These requirements caused
much grumbling amongst all the local rescue squads as
attested to by many articles in the local newspapers.
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