Bolinsky Attends Newtown Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Corps Groundbreaking

NEWTOWN- State Rep. Mitch Bolinsky (R-106) applauded the groundbreaking of a new ambulance center at Fairfield Hills Monday July 29th for the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Corps.

“Having served the town as an all-volunteer corps since 1941, this milestone shows a commitment to serving our emergency medical needs, other Newtown-based health and wellness organizations and the integrated health education of the Newtown community. I want to thank the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Corps for seven decades of dedicated service and congratulations on this wonderful new facility and the care it will provide the town,” said Rep. Bolinsky.

The Newtown Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Corps was established in 1941 and has spent the last several years stationed in a refurbished former Mobil station at 77 Main Street. The Newtown Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Corps’s have overgrown the current location on Main Street.

The nonprofit ambulance service has 60 emergency medical technicians who annually respond to more than 2,000 calls across the town’s 60 square miles. A paramedic, who is trained in advanced life support, is housed 24 hours, seven days a week in order to assist with the more serious medical calls. The service began with the Rotary Club purchasing a 1942 Cadillac Supreme to serve as the Newtown’s first ambulance.

The new facility will offer sleeping quarters for 10 EMTs at a time, as well as room to hold up to 6 ambulances. Hamden-based architects Silver/Petrucelli designed the headquarters, paid for through the ambulance association’s capital expenses with no additional cost to the budget, according to Ambulance Association officials. The project should take about 14 months to complete.