Community Forum: Local rescue squads help our neighbors

Local EMS works best when the community understands it, supports it, and feels connected to it.

Middlebury police, with support from multiple emergency response organizations, were able to find and retrieve a hiker who had fallen through ice on Abbey Pond during the evening of Thursday, Feb. 20.

On Wednesday last week I went kayaking with a friend on Lake Dunmore. I had a freak accident. I fainted and passed out in the water and almost drowned. Thank god a kind man in his boat with two younger men took me aboard despite COVID-19 and boated me to … (read more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZMyiNUQHw On Thanksgiving night, Vermont game warden Eugene Stearns responded to a call in Lincoln, where a loon was stranded in a field. The next morning game warden Dale Whitlock released the distinctive water foul into … (read more)