We recently visited with Capt. Patrick McGinley at the Blount County Rescue Squad. I worked a lot with the Rescue Squad before we visited because of my relationship with the County and all of the things that I have been involved in. Those folks at the Rescue Squad are all volunteers – dedicated folks. There are 32 of them that are very dedicated in providing their time for free to the squad to respond to car wrecks, water rescue and other rescue situations.
The Rescue Squad was created back in the 50’s to provide those services to the community, and my hat’s off to them because they volunteer their time, services, and knowledge – to save lives.Capt. McGinley was talking about how they’ve set up a post to deal with wrecks at The Dragon just to increase response time. The Dragon is a huge draw to this community, and this time of year you just have wreck after wreck up there. Every weekend my pager goes off three or four times where there’s been a wreck on the Dragon, and the fire department, sheriff’s department, rural metro, and the rescue squad are responding to those wrecks. I don’t think there’s been a weekend gone by in the last two months that there hasn’t been at least one wreck on the Dragon. It’s a sign of the times, in that we got so many people riding that thing, and with that kinda’ frequency, they have to post somebody up there to make those calls.
When it comes down to it, they are saving lives. What value can you put on that? It’s priceless. There isn’t a value you can put on a life.
The Rescue Squad provides an invaluable service to Blount County, and that's the bottom line.
Blog you soon,
Dave Bennett
5 comments:
That is good information to know about the Dragon because I've driven that thing before and it gets a little scary, especially with all those motorcycles. To know there is help around the corner makes me feel more at ease. Great picture of the squad trucks too, I love it!
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