Sun City Center Emergency Squad No 1 Inc

The “Squad” as we are called locally, is celebrating its 53rd anniversary this year, thanks to a community that has long provided support.  Due to this support and its wonderful volunteers, the Squad was recognized as the top volunteer EMS agency in the State. We were also recognized by the Florida Council on Aging with the Senior Quality of Living Award.

In its 50+ year history, no one has ever received compensation for their work. Not the Chief, the captains or any of its volunteers. Our service has always been and will always be FREE to the citizens of Sun City Center. This is particularly important to so many of our seniors who are either low-income, medically needy or both. Many of those individuals would not go to the hospital if they knew a big transportation bill would be waiting when they were discharged.

The Squad operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year including holidays. We offer Basic Life Support (BLS) Emergency services and support the County’s Advanced Life Support (ALS) crews whenever they request us. We have four fully-equipped ambulances. Our plan is to replace one each year. We also have two wheelchair vans which serve our residents by taking them to their doctors’ appointments when they are no longer able to drive themselves. Last year we made over 5000 ambulance runs in the community. We also provided 1800 wheelchair runs.