Hatzalah RL - 2026 Dinner - New Headquarters Production

[music] >> There's a lot of excitement and a lot of buzz about this new Woodmere garage. Our number one goal is and always has been to bring you [music] the best of best medical care. And by building this new facility, we'll be able to decrease response time with increased number of vehicles, increase [music] the level of medical education with the facilities that we have, and just really bring an increase what we do in the community. [music] It's in Woodmere, but it's right next to Cedarhurst, Lawrence, Old Woodmere, it's next to Hewlett. It's really in the center of the community. Having a upgraded training center along with simulation labs will take us to a new level. Our EMTs and paramedics will now be able to be trained in a dynamic situation and be able to have hands-on skills. This [music] >> new facility will be able to store many more buses. There's going to be [music] a dedicated mechanic's bay. Anything that needs to get fixed could get fixed immediately, lowering the downtime that [music] any ambulance would be out of commission. >> Today, where we have our regularly scheduled community education classes [music] take place, usually in the Farrockaway garage, many times we need to use other facilities because we've really [music] outgrown the classroom there. This new headquarters will allow the members to get together >> [music] >> in one room, face-to-face with instructors, with each other. The fact that we are adding on a second dispatch center in Woodmere, that will enable us to add on many more dispatchers that will ultimately be able to dispatch for the whole central area. I think it behooves us at this time >> [music] >> to thank our pioneer donors, families in the community that really stepped up, [music] made major dedication, major investments in this facility. It was through their help that we were able to get [music] this project off the ground and to where we are today. On February 11th, 2022, my father suffered from an anoxic cardiac arrest. Hatzalah came and they were our angels and they brought my father back to life. [music] He got another 3 years. My family, specifically my father, wanted to make this dedication because we wanted other people to have the same opportunity we did when they're in such a traumatic event or experience in their lives. [music] My father, he was a member in Borough Park, and he had bought a nursing home in the Beach 9th Street. Back then, they didn't have Hatzalah here. So, he started it off here. His office in the nursing home was like a 10 by 5, and everything was running out of there at that point. He was a member till the day he died. I would like that his memory and his legacy, [music] there's no better place to honor him than right in here. As new generations [music] of members are coming in, they're going to be taking calls, using this place, there's no better place than to see who [music] was behind it, and his memory lives on, his legacy lives on, and his kiss lives on. >> [music] >> I was in my ninth month of pregnancy with our fifth baby, and I was going into labor on Shabbos. We at first called an Uber. It didn't feel like an emergency situation to me at the time, and Isaac actually wanted Hatzalah to come. He felt like that would give him the ultimate peace of mind and know that we were in good hands. Very quickly into the ride, as we're passing Gotta Get A Bagel, it became really obvious that the baby was coming out right away. But in a second, it was all business. >> [screaming] >> They delivered the baby in the ambulance while we were driving, and because of the type of labor that it was, the baby did not come out crying. If not for Hatzalah keeping her stable until we got to the hospital and they were able to take her and put her on a CPAP machine, I think that the end of the story would have been really different. And every single time I see Zohara, it's this beautiful baby that because of Hatzalah, she's here with us. This exists every single day in our community. Having an organization like this, which is [music] building a new building, to have best-in-class simulators, best-in-class training, so they could go and help save [music] lives, is one of the greatest privileges we could ever have in our greater community. Every ambulance we add, every inch we build, [music] and every hour that we train, is a promise to you, our community, [music] that if there's a time in need of Hatzalah, you will not face it alone. And we ask from each and every one from this community, in order for us to be there [music] for you, we need you to be there for us. >> [music]