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The rescue squad does not have enough manpower to hold auctions, bingo games, or carnivals, though it does host summer cookouts and dinners at the elementary school throughout the year to raise money. It also sponsors the annual Miss Rappahannock pageant.
Instead, Sperryville Rescue relies heavily on state-supplied EMS grants. These grants provide between 50-80 percent of the cost of high dollar capital items. The other 5020 percent not covered by the state, must be paid out of funds raised by the volunteer companies themselves.
Last spring, the rescue squad received an 80/20 grant for an Advanced Life Support ambulance, and this year, has applied for four portable twoway highband radios that will be used to coordinate rescues and track personnel. As a teacher, Payne is especially pleased with a third grant that will allow the squad to expand its support to the D.A.R.E. drug awareness program and “DARE Day” in the elementary school. Pocket-sized cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) information guides, pamphlets, coloring books, and EMS book markers will be distributed to children for use at home. This is part of the squad’s continuing community support and education program, along with CPR and first aid classes offered every year.
Even at its most basic levels, EMS work is very demanding. More money for better and safer equipment is needed by every fire and rescue squad in the county. But even more important is the need for more volunteers.
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