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To help familiarize you with this fine neighborhood, please read our brief history about Stuarts Draft, VA.  It?s interesting.

The Stuarts Draft Rscue Squad passed a milestone on May 15, 2000. The squad completed its 30th year of operations and began its 31st. This event was marked by a celebration on June 3rd, 2000. Please take some time and read the brief summary of the first 30 years of SDRS history. For your convenience, the history is broken down into blocks of 10 years each.
 

 
 
The Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad began with a community meeting on October 23, 1969 with the formation of a steering committee. The early part of 1970 was spent in recruiting members and training them in Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Standard First Aid, and Advanced First Aid. Twenty-three members were certified on March 5, 1970. The first ambulance was purchased in February 1970, a 1966 GMC Carryall.

     A "Fund Drive" for $35,000 was started on April 4, 1970, for the purpose of purchasing land, building a rescue squad building, training costs, uniforms, and other necessary equipment and supplies. The first officers of the rescue squad were elected April 9, 1970. On May 15th, 1970, the Virginia Department of Health certified the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad to start emergency operations. The emergency phone, 337-2222, rang for the first time on May 21st, 1970, to transport a chest pain patient to Waynesboro Community Hospital.

     Ground was broken on August 30, 1970, for a 60 x 70-foot, combination rescue- squad /community center. Construction began September 5th and was completed in the spring of 1971.

     January 1971 dawned the first full year of squad operations. An article in the Waynesboro News-Virginian on Friday January 8, 1971 asks for volunteer block layers to help with the interior construction of the squad building. The majority of 1971 was spent in training classes, recruiting new members, and completing the new squad building.

     A junior rescue squad was started in January 1972, with 4 young men. Current SDRS president Gary Radford was one of the young men. SDRS delivered its first baby on Saturday April 15, 1972, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Sharkey.
 
 

The majority of calls that SDRS ran in the 1970?s would be of the class that most EMS providers call "taxi runs." Most of these calls involved transporting someone to the doctor?s office or home from the hospital. There were of course the serious calls for Motor Vehicle Accidents and other serious injuries and illnesses, but these were definitely the exception and not the rule.

     SDRS experienced a major crisis in 1977. Personnel come and go from volunteer EMS on a regular basis. Demands of home, job, and family along with rescue squad commitments take a heavy toll on everyone. In 1977, internal strife and outside obligations almost caused the disbanding of the Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad. Meetings were held to consider dissolving the organization. Membership had dropped to 17 members. Several articles and editorials in local newspapers along with an aggressive membership drive, saved the day. Membership climbed and SDRS was back on track.

     Regional EMS councils were started in Virginia in 1978. Along with the councils came coordinated training, standards of operating, and EMT certification mandates. Although EMT certification was available in Virginia as early as 1971, it was not necessary to have an EMT on the ambulance until 1978. These requirements caused much grumbling amongst all the local rescue squads as attested to by many articles in the local newspapers.