Shallotte Rescue To
Open Ocean Isle
Beach Substation
BY SUSAN USHER
Establishment of a rescue substa
tloo in the Ocean Isle Beach area is
expected to cut response time sod
upgrade overall emergency service
ia that coastal community ? ?fi!hs=i
reducing service to the immediate
Shallotte area.
Shallotte Volunteer Rescue Squad
will be moving one of its two ambu
lances later this month to a site an
Beach Road adjacent to Ocean Isle
Beach Airport.
The other smbulssce will remain
st the station st Village Road and
Blake Street in downtown
assured Lt Mark Gore, an EMT
Intermediate employed by Bruns
wick County EMS who volunteers
with Shallotte Rescue during his off
duty hours.
Opening of the substation, the
first in western Brunswick County,
is a joist effort ot the rescue squad,
the Town of Ocean Isle Beach and
the Ocean Isle Beach Property Own
ers Association (POA).
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serves as Ocean Isle's base during
hurricanes and other emergencies to
shelter the ambulance as well as
house rescue personnel on duty.
Mayor Betty Williamson said town
workers are cleaning up the site, cre
ating a parking area and loop drive,
and installing a security fence.
As soon as the ambulance re
ceives some front-end work, it will
be relocated to the new site adjacent
to Ocean Isle Beach Airport, Com
missioner Ken Proctor reported
Tuesday.
The POA, which helped under
write the cost of establishing the
Ocean Isle Beach Volunteer Fire
Department's first responder pro
gram, decided two years ago it
would be good to have an ambu
lance located nearer the beach, said
Stuart Ingram, chairman of the asso
ciation's public safety committee.
"We thought it would take at least
five years to amimulatr the mon
ey," he said. "We didn't have that
kind of mooey in our budget"
"We brought in (Fire Chief)
David Harrell and Lt Mark Gore (of
the rescue squad) and talked about
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what it would mean foe this whole
area," said Proctor. "As we talked
we saw the good it waa going to do
for the fire department, but moat of
ail, it could save one life."
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about 60 percent of all calls to the
Ocean Isle Beach Volunteer Fire
Department, which operates fire
fighting. water rescue and first re
spooder services. That means we
responded to about 140 (first re
sponder) calls last year in our ser
vice area," said Chief Hanell.
With its volunteer members dis
persed over a wide area and heavy
summer traffic aiowicg mrnaround
times, Shallotte Rescue was also in
terested in a permanent base in the
Ocean Isle Buck fire district
The only equipment its secood
ambulance lacked was a defibrilla
tor, used in treating cardiac patient*
to restore normal heart rhythm. If
the POA could address that need,
the rescue squad agreed to take up
the question of ? subauuOu wun iis
membership.
The POA didn't quite hsvc &e
$7,500 and was faced with depleting
its budget for the ooe item, though
other projects needed funding as
well, such as a new handicapped
ramp to the beach.
"But with full confkkmce we
could raise it," recalled Ingram, "we
told him to go ahead."
Fiuuui saves on ihc town's
emergency services committee with
Commissioner Kendall Suh and is
also a POA director. He and several
other individuals began approaching
individual donors.
"In ooe weekend we had either
the cash in hand or a commitment
for all but a few dollars, and we
have- it all now," he said. This is
something everybody supports and
the entire town board is enthusiastic
about"
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OCEAN ISLE BEACH is converting this town-owntd house neur Or? ItU Beach Airport into m subetotion for the ShaUotte Volunteer
Rescue Squad with the hetp of volunteers that mcludt Fin Chief David HarreiL, CommissionerjPOA Director Ken Proctor, end rescue vol
unteers Ronnie Hayes mnd Mark Gore.
Some of the same desire for pro
viding ftsi dueigpucy response
prompted establishment four yean
ago of the first respooder group
widsia the Ocean laic Bescte
Volunteer Fire Department, as well
as temporary berthing some years
ago of a Shallotte Rescue ambulance
at the fife station until space was no
longer available.
"We're ecstatic," said Hairell.
"We can render sense assistance;
we're trained in basic lifesaviitg
techniques. But these guys are
trained in advanced life support
They can do more and we really
need that. To a man, we're excited.**
Harrell said the department's 12
certified first respcsdsn will stii! do
whatever they can.
"We have four or five people on
the island at all times, so our re
sponse time is good. We will contin
ue to respond, to help Shallotte
Rescue or Brunswick EMS, whoev
er responds," he said "And we have
the equipment to get out onto the
beach strand."
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