Forsyth County Ambulance Service

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Last updated: Oct 4, 2021

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Established, after county is notified in recent weeks that the city's black funeral directors were stopping their ambulance service.
Begins operation on January 10, initially serving city's black residents, with one ambulance and ten employees. Expands at end of month.
Operates out of Forsyth Memorial Hospital. Operates three ambulances transferred from Volger's (2) and Hayworth-Miller (1) funeral homes, plus two others. Four new vehicles have been ordered, three "Amblewagons" and an air-conditioned van.
Serves all areas in county except Kernersville, which should join the system in March.
Service will have 32 attendants and one supervisor, with five ambulances with crews on call, and one back-up ambulance, and one vehicle for "ambulatory patients."
Source: WSJ, 1/5/68, 2/1/68.

Celebrates one-year anniversary.
Answered more than 8,800 calls in past year.
Has seven ambulances and 32 employees.
Headquarters is at the county fire station at Smith-Reynolds Airport, there three ambulances operate. One covers downtown, one covers east Winston, and one has a "roving assignment." The others are stationed at Forsyth Memorial Hospital, at Rural Hall, and Kernersville.
Source: WSJ, _/_/69.

Responded to over 14,000 calls.
Headquarters moved from airport to Reynolds Memorial Hospital, where new shelter protects their fleet of four modular ambulances and five "limousine" ambulances.
Source: WSJ, 1/28/75

Responded to some 16,000 calls.
Two new modular ambulances added, for total of six. Plus new station wagon equipped with EMS equipment, Rescue 1. The 1976 Ford is not equipped for patient transport, was placed in service September 1. Designed to supplement treatment of county's other eight ambulances.
Paramedic program implemented in October.
Total 40 attendants on staff.
Source: WSJ, 9/10/76, 3/11/77