Easton Volunteer Emergency Medical Service (EVEMS) strives to provide full-time year-round coverage to the community. In the 2023 we provided pre-hospital care for a wide range of medical emergencies including, but not limited to, motor vehicle accidents, cardiac arrests, chest pain, breathing emergencies, drug overdoses, domestic violence assaults, and psychiatric issues.
Our average response time of 8.14 minutes continues to be below the state average of 12 minutes.
EVEMS consists of 27 active volunteers and two paid EMTs, staffing two town-owned ambulances. Our dedicated volunteers, many of whom hold full-time jobs, come from Easton and the surrounding towns. Our volunteers typically work a three-man crew. EVEMS received 588 emergency calls in 2023. We were able to respond to 85% of them. Overall, the EVEMS response rate continues to meet and exceed the state-required minimums.
In addition to responding to calls, our members stood by at over two dozen special events and attended skill and knowledge-based training sessions monthly. Some of the events covered in 2023 included in-house and remote training sessions, the Fireman’s Carnival, the Memorial Day parade, the Dare Race, the Easton EMS charity car show and motorcycle ride and the Easton EMS charity fireworks display. Our recycling program, initiated several years ago as a means of earning money for training devices, has continued to be a big success. All told, our 44 members (active and administrative) logged over 6,200 volunteer hours in 2023.
We would like to thank the citizens of Easton for all their continued support while we continue to work toward our goal of replacing out 90-plus-year-old building. The continued fund rising Easton EMS does keeps our budget requests to the town significantly down. In years past EMS has used donation money to purchase $20,000 stretchers for each ambulance, $10,000 stairs chairs, two $30,000 CPR Lucas devises, a $16,000 all-terrain vehicle, a used sport utility vehicle for $6,000 as well as thousands of dollars in training equipment.
We encourage residents to call our headquarters at 203-452-9595 to inquire about EMT courses that we run several times a year. To learn more about us, please check our web site, www.Eastonems.com or visit us on FACEBOOK and Instagram. You can also reach us by email at jarnold@eastonems.com.
We at Easton Volunteer EMS wish everyone a Happy New Year and look forward to what 2024 has to offer us!
