photos courtesy of Boyd Loving
May 10th 2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ , Volunteer members of Ridgewood’s Emergency Medical Services organization were on hand to receive an official proclamation declaring the week of May 21 through 27, 2017 as Emergency Medical Services Week in the Village of Ridgewood. The proclamation was made and presented by Ridgewood’s Mayor, Susan Knudsen, and members of the Ridgewood Village Council during a Village Council Public Meeting held on Wednesday evening, May 10.
Ridgewood has an all volunteer Ridgewood EMT’s , who answer 1700 calls a year, 21,000 hours of time . Mayor Knudsen and the Village council honored the Village EMT’s . Mayor Knudsen specificity thanked the EMT’s for being so attentive on recent visits to her father house ,twice in the last several weeks. The EMT’s responded that “It was our privilege and pleasure to serve the Village” .
Simply the best. Good luck if you have a stroke or a heart attack in some of the other towns around here.
No one came to the microphone arguing that this was a bad idea. Let’s have more of those.