{"id":37784,"date":"2022-08-08T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=37784"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:54:44","slug":"saratoga-county-ems-council-announces-2022-awards-for-exemplary-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/08\/saratoga-county-ems-council-announces-2022-awards-for-exemplary-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Saratoga County EMS Council Announces 2022 Awards For Exemplary Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37785\" style=\"width: 915px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/ems-awards-h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/ems-awards-h.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/ems-awards-h-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/ems-awards-h-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Award recipients, from left, are Jean Tranka, Thomas Lundquist, Alan Bell, Nash Alexander, and Walt Fitzgerald, representing the Edinburg Emergency Squad that won Agency of the Year.<br \/>Courtesy Saratoga County EMS Council<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saratoga County EMS Council announced the recipients of the 2022 Saratoga County EMS Awards.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Awards are provided to emergency services personnel, affiliated with a NYS EMS agency, who show individual or team heroism above and beyond the ordinary call of duty.<\/p>\n<p>The EMS Agency of the Year awarded went to Edinburg Emergency Squad. It is an all-volunteer, nimble, dynamic service organization that has consistently embraced change, delivered the highest quality EMS coupled with enhanced services to their citizens and community.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Formed in 1962, they remain the only all-volunteer ambulance service in Saratoga County, staffed by 22 volunteers, answering 100 calls annually and supported entirely by community donations. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>EMS Educator of Excellence was awarded to Jean Tranka. Tranka has served as a certified instructor coordinator for the Saratoga County EMS Council for over 20 years. Her care and concern for each and every student has not only earned her the nickname, \u201cMama Jean,\u201d but is reflected in her consistently near 100 percent pass rates in her courses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/b>The EMS Communications Specialist of the Year is Thomas Lundquist. Lundquist joined the Saratoga County Sheriff\u2019s Department Communications Division in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Harriet C. Weber Leadership Award went to Alan Bell. Bell is the executive director of the Clifton Park &amp; Halfmoon Ambulance Corps. He began his service in 1995 as a volunteer EMT.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Under his leadership the agency has been named by the <i>Times Union<\/i> as a top place to work for five consecutive years based on employee input.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Alan solicits input from the entire workforce, to continually move the organization forward. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saratoga County EMS Council announced the recipients of the 2022 Saratoga County EMS Awards.\u00a0 Awards are provided to emergency services personnel, affiliated with a NYS EMS agency, who show individual or team heroism above and beyond the ordinary call of duty. The EMS Agency of the Year awarded went to Edinburg Emergency Squad. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":37785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Saratoga County EMS Council Announces 2022 Awards For Exemplary Service - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/08\/saratoga-county-ems-council-announces-2022-awards-for-exemplary-service\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saratoga County EMS Council Announces 2022 Awards For Exemplary Service - Saratoga Business Journal\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Saratoga County EMS Council announced the recipients of the 2022 Saratoga County EMS Awards.\u00a0 Awards are provided to emergency services personnel, affiliated with a NYS EMS agency, who show individual or team heroism above and beyond the ordinary call of duty. 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