Killingly-Brooklyn Ambulance Corps, Inc
Yesterday:
K-B Ambulance Corps was organized in 1939 as an all volunteer corps serving the towns of Killingly and Brooklyn Connecticut. The original headquarters was established on Furnace Street in Danielson in the current location of The Imperial Room. The first service of its kind in Northeastern Connecticut, K-B Ambulance Corps is the primary emergency medical transport provider for the Town of Killingly.
Today:
K-B Ambulance is a non-profit organization. We routinely assist other area services on a call-by-call basis as needed. With our three ambulances, we average
197 EMS calls a month. In 1980, K-B moved to its current location on Westcott Road, a former body shop retrofitted to meet the Corps needs. In the early 1990's, the town of Brooklyn formed its own ambulance service
with the Mortlake Fire Company.
UPDATE
2010: Today KB Ambulance is excited to announce that site work has
been completed on our new addition! It has brought all of KB's services
under one building and provides much needed space. It houses the
administrative offices, a new training facility, new day room for staff, new
sleeping quarters, and a new bay for the ambulances. It will also help KB
to begin to plan for the future and any further expansion that may come up in
KB's future. Stay tuned for the details of our open house and
picture gallery of the new addition!
Check out our news page for upcoming classes being held here at KB Ambulance
in our new training facility!
KB Ambulance is happy to announce that EMS-I Richard Sanders will be hosting an
EMT-B Initial Class here at KB Ambulance beginning in September. Richard
brings over 25 years of teaching experience along with his fellow instructors.
Richard and his staff have had a hand in teaching most of the EMTs that serve
our northeast corner over the last few decades and we are proud to welcome him
and his staff here to keep that tradition alive.
Staff:
In 1995 K-B added a full-time paid administrator, one part-time and two full-time Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT). Today, the full time K-B staff consists of an Administrator, Operations Manager, Billing Manager,
4 full time EMTs and 1 part time EMT.
Paid crews now protect our community Monday thru Friday, 6 a.m.- 6 p.m., and 24 hours a day Saturday and Sunday. They are supplemented by a force of 34 volunteer EMTs and
23 Medical Response Technicians. They cover the time when paid staff is not on duty and also handle any second and third crew calls.
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