Clinton Township Vol. Fire Company
Ambulance Service Facts

1. -First started on July 28, 2002, since then we have responded to over 2600 emergencies and have missed only one (1) which occurred in May of 2003. No other service in Lycoming County can give this same statistic, not even Susquehanna Health System.
2. -Exceed the PA Department of Health’s minimum crewmember requirements EVERY TIME we respond by sending a minimum of two (2) Emergency Medical Technicians
3. -There is not a membership requirement that results in a yearly fee being charged to the residents for use of the ambulance.
4. -Provide all ambulance stand-by services for the Montgomery School District and Penn Tech College, Earth Science facility for events there.
5. -Ambulance is staffed with two emergency medical technicians, who are also cross trained as fire fighters, during weekdays from 0700 until 1700. This keeps our volunteers at work, provides jobs and income tax revenue in the Township, and ensures a quick response to emergencies when traditionally staffed ambulance services are finding it very hard to respond. This staffing has made the difference in many people’s lives within Clinton, Brady, and Washington Townships, particularly during traumatic accidents that have occurred at factories within the Townships.
6. -Ambulance service provides its own operating revenue without the use of tax money. It supports two full-time and 5 part time or per diem employees, their benefits, and their workers compensation insurance.
7. -Ambulance service provides operating revenue to the Fire Company, for example, all the fuel for the entire fleet is purchased solely with proceeds from the ambulance service which in 2007 exceeded $6,500.00. The fuel for our fleet was previously provided by the Township.
8. -We provide emergency supplies of Oxygen and medical supplies to residents until they can get their own, i.e., during power outages and storms.
9. -We assist funeral home directors and the County Coroner with the removal of remains to aid the families. Very few fire departments will provide this service.
10. -We have mailed over 2000 ambulance service surveys to people who have used our service. We have NEVER received any complaints or negative comments on those that were returned.
11. -We have discharged in excess of $40,000.00 in uncollected debt for ambulance transports to people who have used our service since it was started. None of the aforementioned discharged debt is from State Prison inmate transports. No one has ever been issued a collection notice from our service.