Silver City Fire & Rescue
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The Silver City Volunteer Rescue Department is a non-profit, volunteer organization that provides fire protection and rescue services for the town of Silver City, three Mills County Townships and a portion of one Pottawattamie County Township. The fire department also provides mutual aid to neighboring fire departments, and our rescue area is approximately double that size.
Due to limited funding, we rely on grants, private contributions, and our annual fundraiser to help with the purchase of supplies, equipment, and special projects. Each year we establish a goal to purchase needed items with the proceeds from our fundraisers.
Silver City Rescue is a Basic Life Support (BLS) service. Silver City Rescue is an all volunteer organization with 12 members and provides emergency medical services to Silver City, Mineola, and approximately a 25-mile radius surrounding these two communities. Silver City Rescue is the primary emergency medical service for this area.
Silver City Rescue is in need of your support to improve the state of our equipment, primarily our ambulances. It was not until late 2016 that we started to bill patients for our services. We now began to receive some income to help us pay for repairs. However, it is still difficult to maintain our equipment and ambulances because the cost exceeds our income. We are targeting the general repairs for the ambulances and the essential equipment within the ambulance, for example, ambulance cots for safe patient handling and heart monitors for evaluation of the heart rhythms along with other safety improvements for both patients and EMTs. Our ambulances are nearly 20 years old. In the recent past, our need for repairs has been increasing, and it is not uncommon to have 1 of 2 ambulances in the automotive shop for repairs. We have been very fortunate that we have people in the community that are willing volunteer their shops to help fix our ambulances for just the cost of parts. We are concerned that these problems compromise our ability to respond to calls as well as patient and our response crew’s safety. Silver City Rescue was 1 of 2 rescue units in Mills County Iowa who answered 100% of their calls.
EMS Response radius and geographic features of response area:
Mineola: population 125 (3 sq miles)
Silver City: Population 250 (4 sq miles)
Townships:
Oak: Pop -2501, 47.5 sq miles
Keg: Pop - 791, 15 sq miles
Silver: Pop - 459, 6 sq miles
Ingraham: Pop - 532, 10 sq miles
Anderson: 18 sections
Population served:
Silver City: 649
Mineola: 166
Total square miles covered by Silver City Rescue: 90 sq miles
Average income and poverty level
Silver City: $73,750 and 3.2% below poverty level
Mineola: $43,792 and 0.0% below poverty level
Major industry/businesses and other economic highlights
Heartland Co-op
Bunge
Lake Ohana
Google Plant
Tobey Jacks Steakhouse
Critical infrastructure in response area
Interstate 29, Loess Hills, Wabash Trail, Fountains Ballroom, Belle Terre Ballroom, Keg Creek
The Silver City Fire & Rescue Officer Board Would Like To Thank You;
John Stacey: Rescue Chief
Ann Schoening: Rescue Assistant Chief
Jessica Zoerb: Billing Officer
Vince Schultz: Secretary
Lynn Schrum: Administrative Officer
https://www.facebook.com/SilverCityVFD/
Federal Tax ID # 426-040-561
Due to limited funding, we rely on grants, private contributions, and our annual fundraiser to help with the purchase of supplies, equipment, and special projects. Each year we establish a goal to purchase needed items with the proceeds from our fundraisers.
Silver City Rescue is a Basic Life Support (BLS) service. Silver City Rescue is an all volunteer organization with 12 members and provides emergency medical services to Silver City, Mineola, and approximately a 25-mile radius surrounding these two communities. Silver City Rescue is the primary emergency medical service for this area.
Silver City Rescue is in need of your support to improve the state of our equipment, primarily our ambulances. It was not until late 2016 that we started to bill patients for our services. We now began to receive some income to help us pay for repairs. However, it is still difficult to maintain our equipment and ambulances because the cost exceeds our income. We are targeting the general repairs for the ambulances and the essential equipment within the ambulance, for example, ambulance cots for safe patient handling and heart monitors for evaluation of the heart rhythms along with other safety improvements for both patients and EMTs. Our ambulances are nearly 20 years old. In the recent past, our need for repairs has been increasing, and it is not uncommon to have 1 of 2 ambulances in the automotive shop for repairs. We have been very fortunate that we have people in the community that are willing volunteer their shops to help fix our ambulances for just the cost of parts. We are concerned that these problems compromise our ability to respond to calls as well as patient and our response crew’s safety. Silver City Rescue was 1 of 2 rescue units in Mills County Iowa who answered 100% of their calls.
EMS Response radius and geographic features of response area:
Mineola: population 125 (3 sq miles)
Silver City: Population 250 (4 sq miles)
Townships:
Oak: Pop -2501, 47.5 sq miles
Keg: Pop - 791, 15 sq miles
Silver: Pop - 459, 6 sq miles
Ingraham: Pop - 532, 10 sq miles
Anderson: 18 sections
Population served:
Silver City: 649
Mineola: 166
Total square miles covered by Silver City Rescue: 90 sq miles
Average income and poverty level
Silver City: $73,750 and 3.2% below poverty level
Mineola: $43,792 and 0.0% below poverty level
Major industry/businesses and other economic highlights
Heartland Co-op
Bunge
Lake Ohana
Google Plant
Tobey Jacks Steakhouse
Critical infrastructure in response area
Interstate 29, Loess Hills, Wabash Trail, Fountains Ballroom, Belle Terre Ballroom, Keg Creek
The Silver City Fire & Rescue Officer Board Would Like To Thank You;
John Stacey: Rescue Chief
Ann Schoening: Rescue Assistant Chief
Jessica Zoerb: Billing Officer
Vince Schultz: Secretary
Lynn Schrum: Administrative Officer
https://www.facebook.com/SilverCityVFD/
Federal Tax ID # 426-040-561
Organizer
Jessica Zoerb
Organizer
Silver City, IA
