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ing the day can be a problem.
It can be hard finding time to do fund-raising while working full time, said Brian, but it is all worthwhile when a new piece of equipment can be purchased, he said, pointing with pride to the new utility truck in the fire hall.
Seventeen-year-old Allison Lofton recently joined the squad as a rescue member. A senior at RCHS, she became certified as an EMT last May, but because she has been so busy with school and working, just joined in December. She is one of two teenage EMTs in the squad; the other is Tim Webb. She ran her first call last week.
She took the EMT class on the behest of her stepmother, Bonnie. "I really liked the class and met a lot of different people," said Allison. She said she had always wanted to work in a hospital and that being on the rescue squad is the next best thing. As part of the EMT training, she got to spend, as other students do, ten hours in the emergency room at Fauquier Hospital. During that training she was allowed to take temperatures and blood pressures on patients. "I have always loved working with people," she said.
"I want to be a traditional healer," said Allison, who is very interested in the field of medicine. She has studied with Kathleen Maier and completed a 10-week course in herbs with her. She also plans on studying homeopathy and allopathy.
After graduating from RCHS this spring, Allison may be spending a year in India to study methods of healing at
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