This summer, it was a shortage of lifeguards. Now the town of Clarkstown says they need more emergency services volunteers, both firefighters and EMTs. Clarkstown supervisor George Hoehmann says it’s a national problem, and COVID is to blame…
RCC recently launched a new program that students, the unemployed or under-employed Rocklanders can take to help accelerate the process. Timothy Egan is with Rockland Paramedic Services, and he says the county desperately needs more volunteers…
Meanwhile, over in Sloatsburg, the previously shut-down Sloatsburg Ambulance Corps building is now teeming with life again as the Spring Hill Ambulance Corps is operating from there full-time. Ramapo Supervisor Michael Specht says they had been covering the Sloatsburg area from Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern after Sloatsburg was defunded following an investigation into theft of funds there, but now they’re even closer to the people for whom the coverage is provided…
The former president of the Sloatsburg Corps faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty in July to stealing more than $70,000 from the corps. Rockland’s D-A says 54 year-old Matthew Gannon could get that sentence reduced if he pays the money back before December 23rd, that date pushed back from his original October sentencing date. RCC’s new EMT Training program begins January 24th and leads to New York State Certification as an EMT-Basic. To make an appointment using the EMT Program Application Form, click here.