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Published Thursday Morning at Washington, Rappahannock
County, Virginia, by the Fauquier Publishing Company, Inc.
Entered as Second Class Mail at the Post Office in Washington,
Virginia. Subscriptions (in advance) $3 in Rappahannock
and adjacent counties: $3.50 East Coast: $4 Midwest:
$4.50 West Coast
MRS. SARAH C. LATHAM.^Managing Editor
Telephone Washington 675-3349
VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY organizations can be helpful in rural areas where doctors are scarce and medical facilities are far away. A crises can arise at most any time, and often does. Volunteers give of their time and talent; are generous with both.
Emergency vehicles are, however, subject to the same traffic rules and regulations as any motorist on any road or highway. This apparently is forgotten sometimes by volunteers.
Recently observed was an ambulance rushing to a fire as a standby unit only, ignoring stop signs, speed limits and needlessly creating a hazard on the road. This was not an emergency call for the ambulance. The fire apparatus had already preceded the rescue unit at a lesser pace and was in action. There is no point in speeding down a residential street which is inhabited by families with children, crossing a dual lane highway without stopping and driving down a narrow road at a break-neck pace when there is no emergency. The benefit derived would be much outweighed by the hazard created. □
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