Hatzolah EMS and LFA Receive Plaque

if i can call upon scott carter scott carter please come up to the podium thank you okay if i can have a representative of lakewood volunteer first aid come up to the podium as well and if i could have the uh these three organizations here are currently our three organizations that have emergency medical technicians that answer the polls day and night to assist our residents here at lakewood at this point i'm going to join the mic over to mayor and explain thank you mayor and it's an honor for me to stand here and i'll say with my fellow emts and some paramedics to honor the squads in town all three liquid ems lake before state lake would not solve i've been a member actually of a volunteer tall squad for about 18 years but since i've joined the committee i think my full value has dropped but they still allow me to call myself a member and take some calls um you know today uh for those of us who are reading the asbury park press we probably have read about the unfortunate passing of a 16 year old resident of lakewood township who perished today from an accident a couple of weeks ago where a school bus flipped over she was not a passenger on buses driving by on a bike i was not in town at that time but when i came back and i got reports from all three squads standing to my side it was amazing to me to see how these three squads work together between the three squads we probably handle over 10 000 uh calls here in town for requests for medical service or for ambulances the person who perished was unfortunately 16 year old a young hispanic female and the only issue that i heard at that call was that some of the members of one of the squads in the haste to save a life dove under a bus maybe not 100 protected and have to be pulled back and that to me speaks about how well these three squads work together because it was all three squads working together who put their own life in peril to get under that bus to pull this young child out and i know that there are calls that go answer the middle of the night ems doesn't take a break 24 hours seven days a week 365 days a year our dedicated paid dedicated volunteer squads in this town are so appreciated for what they do and obviously as you can tell this is something that's very very close to my heart having been involved peripherally for the past couple of years with the squads but just amazing amazing groups of people people who give up of their time especially on the volunteering people who give up of their time and their family time to be available to the members of this community in all three squads service all communities across this town so please if i can ask for mayor with your commission a standing ovation for our ems foreign