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 2008: Today KB Ambulance is excited to announce that in the near
future we will be putting an addition on to the current ambulance garage, so we
can begin preparing for the future. It will bring all of KB's services
under one building and will provide much needed space. It will house 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 exciting details that will follow and
picture gallery of the construction!
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, EMS Operations Manager, Billing Manager, three full time EMTs and two part time EMTs.
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 36 volunteer EMTs and
19 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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