I live in Lee (or Madbury or Durham). Don we need to have our own EMS agency and ambulance?
We ARE your hometown ambulance service. Our volunteers are residents of Durham, Lee, and Madbury and students at UNH. We are an independent, not-for-profit organization and we serve all of our communities equally. While we have historically been known as “Durham Ambulance Corps,” we are not an agency of the Town of Durham and we are not part of the Durham Fire Department. Working together, Durham, UNH, Lee and Madbury have built a first-class EMS system that is extremely cost-effective. This system—in which a local first responder service (your fire department) is coupled with a separate “regional” agency (McGregor) providing primary EMS transport and treatment—is the prevalent model used across the United States. Standing alone, without a significant increase in cost, it would be very difficult for any of the communities to operate a high-quality, paramedic-level EMS transport system.
