<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0lND6O_1BJJBpNB00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0lND6O_1BJJBpNB00" width="1024" height="768" ></figure>HUDSON – Volunteer ambulance services around the state are all facing the same problem – the difficulty in securing adequate staffing levels of qualified people to serve communities.The Greenport Rescue Squad, Inc. has found an answer to providing ambulance service with paid professionals to a large area of Columbia County.It is now providing service beyond Greenport to the towns of Livingston, Germantown, Clermont, Taghkanic, and Gallatin, with between 60 and 65 full-time EMTs and paramedics, said its executive director Adain O’Connor, Jr.“We are fortunate that we had the staff and we had the ability and in Columbia County we are uniquely now the only uniquely based non-profit EMS agency,” he said. “So we work super-collaboratively, and I think that is part of the recipe that Columbia County has done for so many years to make sure we not part of that crisis that so many ae facing around us.”Greenport Rescue Squad, with headquarters in Hudson, has eight ambulances, one fly car, two boats, a UTV, two large trailers and one rescue truck.</div></body>

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HUDSON – Volunteer ambulance services around the state are all facing the same problem – the difficulty in securing adequate staffing levels of qualified people to serve communities. The Greenport Rescue Squad, Inc. has found an answer to providing ambulance service with paid professionals to a large area...

Greenport Rescue Squad expands EMS coverage

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HUDSON – Volunteer ambulance services around the state are all facing the same problem – the difficulty in securing adequate staffing levels of qualified p

Greenport Rescue Squad expands EMS coverage

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