Stony Point Ambulance Corps

2012 is the 66th year that Stony Point Ambulance Corps was in service to the community. It started in 1946 with  a group of concerned citizens and a postcard mailing to the residents of Stony Point. (read the first annual report from 1947)

After a brief stint using borrowed garage space, the ambulance corps operated out of a location at 6 Lee Avenue for nearly 66 years. Having outgrown the facilities at Lee Avenue, the current members of the corps “reached for the sky” and built a new facility to house its ambulances, provide adequate operations space and help serve the community

On Saturday, September 15 we held our new building dedication with an open house and the burial of a time capsule. We also held a wet-down for our newest rig 61B4 – thanks to the help of local fire departments. Unfortunately we had to wait for our Certificate of Occupancy in order to operate out of the new building on a full-time basis.

In the meanwhile our youth squad was very active and participating in county and state-wide drills. They brought home more trophies! They also attended and took training at Pulse Check 2012 which took place this year in Suffern.

We hosted our annual Halloween Haunted House at our old building on Saturday, October 27; the 2nd day scheduled for Sunday, October 28 was postponed due to the impending Superstprm Sandy hitting the area. We moved our rigs into the new building immediately after closing the Haunted House that Saturday night.

The Town of Stony Point asked us to act as a temporary evacuation shelter and we began receiving evacuees on Sunday evening less than 24-hours after moving our operations to the new building. Our evacuees and several of our own members took shelter in the building and rode out Superstorm Sandy together. It was an exciting and fulfilling week and we met a lot of our neighbors. (Read Tom Ossa’a blog about Hurricane Sandy and our shelter)

By the way, we did hold a Halloween Re-Do on Saturday, Nov. 10th and Sunday Nov. 11th – many of the families that came to partake said it was  terrific because the kids didn’t get to celebrate Halloween properly due to the storm. We were glad to be there for them.

Our mission statement reads, “The purpose and function of this organization is to provide a 24 hour community ambulance service to the residents, visitors and transients in the Town of Stony Point, New York.”

We need YOU. We need EMTs and drivers to help answer the call for help. All training is supplied by the corps, county and state. And we only ask for a minimum of 12 hours per month – It’s not a lot of time, but it is enough time to save a life. Please join us and be a part of something bigger. Download an application here and get started.