EMS: One Mission, One Team

by Jan Yaeger

“Where did the ambulance come from?”

“From Seldovia.”

“I didn’t know we had an ambulance!”

This was part of a conversation I had earlier this week with a bystander, after what turned out to be what we EMS volunteers consider a “good call”: one that ended with everyone safe, warm, uninjured, and with no need for an ambulance ride. Although this is always our preferred outcome, we work hard to make sure we are ready to help, whenever and however we are needed.

EMS in Seldovia can often fly under the radar. The ambulance rarely runs “hot” (lights and sirens) because the traffic in our little community doesn’t require it. Volunteers don’t walk around town in our EMS jackets with the high-visibility trim. Often the only giveaway is the pager clipped to a waistband, or a radio antenna Continue Reading