my first EMS agency closes its doors... and it's only a little bit shady.....

[DrParasite]

Even though I left the organization in more than a decade ago, it's sad that an organization that handled 4500 calls a year a strictly volunteer agency can fall so far to the point where it hires a paid EMS chief, hires it's own employees (going from 100% volunteer to combination with paid and volunteer staff) and then shuts it's doors virtually overnight. And then 4 ambulances, a supervisor's vehicle, and a station (which was rebuilt around 1998, has room for 6 trucks, classroom, showers, it was pretty nice) are acquired by a hospital based agency for under $110,000.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/eastbrunswick/east-brunswick-rescue-squad-abruptly-shuts-down

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/sto...nswick-rescue-squad-pays-its-debt/3355846002/

67 years of service wiped out due to gross mismanagement over the past few years.... truly a shame.