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Many current employees remember working in this version of 518.
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The cab of a 1980’s Manchester Ambulance.
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MANCHESTER — An ASM Paramedic Unit at a point in time when the company was known as Manchester Ambulance. Note the towel roll head blocks visible in the window.
ASM Responds: Winter Storm Charlotte
The Hartford Courant
By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, leavenworth@courant.com
MANCHESTER — Read the whole article here…Private ambulance providers had similar difficulties. Prevented from close access to many homes, medics had to carry patients, in some cases for 100 yards or more, through thigh-deep snow, Dave Skoczulek, spokesman for Ambulance Service of Manchester and Aetna Ambulance Service, said Monday.
Ambulances mired on roadsides and stuck in deep snow banks had to be pulled out with a four-wheel drive paramedic intercept vehicle. Total calls were less than normal, Skoczulek said, “but each call was typically more severe and took much, much more effort and much longer to complete.”
At the height of the storm, a patient with chest pains had to be taken from Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. A physician arranged for a plow to escort the ambulance, and there were many other stories of plows paving the way for emergency medical personnel, Skoczulek said.
Another crew in a heavy ambulance equipped with tire chains could not make it over impassable roads with a critical care patient aboard, Skoczulek said. The crew got help from Manchester police and residents, who came over with shovels and snowblowers, he said. Eventually, a backhoe from Ansaldi Construction winched the ambulance back onto a cleared road surface, Skoczulek said.
ASM Responds: East Hartford Apartment Fire
EAST HARTFORD— Residents of an apartment on Ellington Road leapt from their windows into the waiting arms of firefighters to escape from a three-alarm blaze early Tuesday.
A dozen people, including three firefighters, were injured, officials said. Five people were hurt, one severely, when they jumped from their windows. Residents of 38 units have been sent to the North End Senior Center on Remington Road. Read the Courant/Fox CT article here…
Photo Courtesy of Hartford Courant – Fox CT
ASM Responds: Motor Vehicle in East Hartford
Photo Courtesy of the Journal Inquirer
According to the Journal Inquirer: East Hartford emergency personnel work on a patient from a minor motor vehicle accident on Main Street early Saturday afternoon. The accident was quickly cleared up and didn’t affect traffic for long. (Jared Ramsdell / Journal Inquirer)
Emergency of Hunger Food Drive 2012: The Impact
MANCHESTER —
The final total for the Manchester team:
- Food items: 13,134
- Turkeys: 440
- Cash and checks: $4,196
The final totals for the entire Emergency of Hunger Food Drive for 2012, including Manchester, Rockville, South Windsor, Vernon and Windsor:
- Food items: 49,044
- Turkeys: 1,137
- Cash and checks: $21,638
The Food Bank at MACC Charities: Before and After
‘Emergency of Hunger’ Food Drive Continues This Weekend
Click for the latest Hartford Courant article on the Food Drive…
First Weekend Totals:
- Food Items 14,646
- Cash $6656
- Turkeys 215
To Reach the Goals, the Second Weekend Must Total:
- Food Items 25,000
- Cash $28,000
- Turkeys 1,585
The food drive will take place on the following days and in the following Stop & Shop locations:
- Vernon (11-17 and 18): 10a-6p, 10 Pitkin Road, Vernon
- Rockville (11-17 and 18): 10a-6p, 50 Windsorville Road, Rockville
- Manchester (11-17 and 11-18): 10a-6p, 286 Broad St, Manchester
- South Windsor (11-17 and 18): 10a-6p,1739 Ellington Road, South Windsor
- Windsor (11-17 and 18): 10a-6p, 1095 Kennedy Road, Windsor
* The second weekend adds an additional town with its two locations. Continue reading
‘Emergency Of Hunger’ Food Drive Restocks Pantries At Critical Time
By MICHAEL WALSH, Special to The Hartford Courant MANCHESTER ——
The fourth annual Emergency of Hunger Food Drive, a community staple in the Manchester area since its 2009 debut, serves much more than helping the town prepare for the holiday season.
While more than 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys are donated each year to the food drive, which is organized locally by the Ambulance Service of Manchester, those who see hunger first-hand say the food drive allows food pantries to remain stocked in the slower winter months. Continue reading
Heavy Lifting For Ambulance Crews
Obesity Epidemic Is Changing Emergency Medical Transport
By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, leavenworth@courant.com The Hartford Courant
October 20, 2012
Emergency medical technicians have long shared a Murphy’s Law kind of reckoning about obese patients: for every additional floor in a building, the patient will weigh 100 more pounds.
It’s dark humor among men and women with an often grim, strenuous job, but obesity rates are rising throughout the state and nation, and a recently released report says the ranks of the morbidly obese will continue to balloon.
The task of transporting patients who weigh at least 100 pounds more than they should is now a daily reality in Connecticut and throughout the nation. The job strains ambulance crews, causing widespread back injuries, and piles financial burdens on both volunteer companies and professional providers.
“We’ve always had to deal with big people,” said Glenn Luedtke,safety committee chairman of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, “but nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see someone who’s 300 pounds into the 400-pound range.” Continue reading
American Emergency Vehicles’ Brochure Features Aetna’s Design
AEV Brochure for Sprinter
HARTFORD — Aetna’s distinct half Battenburg featured on the Dodge version of our Sprinters was used in an American Emergency Vehicle brochure for their Mercedes version.
Aetna began taking delivery of AEV Dodge Sprinter ambulances in 2009 and Mercedes Sprinter ambulances in 2011. Only a handful of Ford ambulances remain in both fleets.
See the full AEV brochure that features Aetna’s design here…
Aetna and ASM Send Ambulances to Mass Casualty in New Britain
Aetna and ASM at Rock Cats Stadium – Photo Courtesy of WFSB
NEW BRITAIN — On June 29, 2012 multiple ambulances from Aetna and ASM were requested to Rock Cats Stadium in New Britain for a report of multiple patients suffering from heat exhaustion.
The stadium was the venue for a graduation exercise at the time and due to 95 degree temperatures, many in attendance were displaying signs of heat related illnesses. Aetna and ASM had up to six ambulances and two paramedic units to assist New Britain EMS.
ASM Wins Governor’s Award for Career EMS Organizations
HARTFORD– Ambulance Service of Manchester (ASM) has won the “Governor’s Award for Career EMS Services” for 2012. The award is conferred by the Connecticut EMS Council as part of EMS Week (May 20-26), an annual recognition of the dedication and sacrifice of Emergency Medical Services professionals.
This award was established to recognize and commend an EMS Organization that has enhanced the understanding and support of the EMS System through their public service, community education and contributions to a city, town region or the state as a whole.
ASM Responds: Car Crash in Manchester
- (Photo Courtesy of Hartford Courant)
HARTFORD COURANT
MANCHESTER— Three people were taken away by ambulance after an accident on Tolland Turnpike Wednesday afternoon.
The injuries were non-life threatening, police said. Two vehicles had heavy front-end damage. Police traffic Sgt. Hank Minor said speeding and inattentive driving caused the accident. A driver of a third car involved in the accident would be cited, Minor said. Read the full Courant article here… Continue reading