| 54 Years Ago Monday June 19, 1972
Your telephone jingles at 2 a.m. and you, a volunteer driver, must roll out of the comfort of a warm bed, dress, and take the ambulance to the scene of “who knows what?” This has been going on for 25 years in Emmitsburg, and countless lives have been saved by the spontaneous action of a few of the volunteers of the Emmitsburg Memorial Post 6658 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
One driver remembers taking a patient in the first ambulance, a Cadillac, to City Hospital in East Baltimore about midnight. After the Cadillac fell into oblivion, two Ford ambulances were purchased. The most recent ambulance made by the Swab Wagon Co., at a cost of $15,000, was put into service only on June 6, 1972 |
