Founded in 1936
The Greenport Rescue Squad was founded in 1936 as a non-profit community service organization. Generations of volunteers have put in countless hours of service to shape this organization into the successful agency we are today.
We have grown along with the greater Hudson area community we serve. For many years we were located within the Greenport Fire Department building on Rt. 23B. As the needs for our services grew, so did the number of ambulances. By 1996, we had outgrown our former home and built a new one at 3 Newman Road. This state-of-the-art facility houses all of our vehicles and equipment and provides for expanded amenities for our staff.
Greenport Rescue Squad has always been a forward-looking organization. We were the first to make the move to paid staff from an all-volunteer cadre. We were the first to upgrade our services from BLS to ALS. And we were the first, and still the only Columbia County Agency to respond to over 6,000 calls from our community each year.
We are proud members of the Columbia County EMS System.
The Columbia County EMS System was a collaboration of all the EMS agencies throughout Columbia County and began in 2010. The mission of this unique system was to provide ambulances to other Columbia County EMS agencies whose services were depleted due to call volume. Since 2010 the Columbia County EMS system has greatly reduced response times due the relocation of ambulances. Other Counties in NYS continuously show interest in this system. To learn more please click here.
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Board of Directors
- Medical Director – Dr. Yuri Stippa
- Chairman of the Board – Christopher Pierro
- President – John Onufrychuk
- Vice President – Richard Franceschi
- Secretary/Treasurer – Michael Cozzolino
- Directors – PJ Keeler, Cheryl Prochera, Christopher Pierro, Dawn Olson, James Warfield, James Briscoe, John Onufrychuk, Kelly Schermerhorn, and Maria Ostrander