Post 764 Ambulance Service

Ambulance History - Continued
The first official trip was run on Labor Day, 1963 and was a wreck on Route 19 in which 5 patients were transported. The service was originally staffed by seven volunteers who provided 24 hour a day, 7 day a week coverage to the community. The ambulance was initially kept at a garage on McMurray Road near the present Middle School. The calls were taken by the Barton family or the Bethel Police, who dispatched our police at that time.

VFW 764 Ambulance group next to the Peters Township Municipal Building

Subsequently, the garage went out of business, and the ambulance was kept at Bob McMurray's house while a garage that was donated by the Citizens Water Company was moved to an area beside the original Municipal Building, less than 100 feet from our current facility. As this Municipal Building became the Library in the mid-1970's and the Township needed additional space, the current Post home on Valley Brook Road was purchased and renovated into a two bay garage and crew quarters.

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