Highland Ambulance Ems

To provide the full range of emergency medical services to communities in the berkshire hills of western Massachusetts including: responding to all fire calls in the surrounding towns; providing training and certification testing for all first responders; providing mandatory inoculations for all first responders; running blood pressure clinics for residents of the surrounding towns; developing and practicing emergency response plans with the schools and camps in the surrounding towns; conducting health and safety classes for the schools; working with the Massachusetts emergency management agency (mema), federal emergency management agency (fema), and homeland security to develop emergency response plans for the surrounding towns; providing mutual aid and paramedic intercept services to the neighboring communities; providing transport services; providing standby service for major community events such as the chesterfield parade, the ashfield fall festival and the cummington fair; and responding to all 911 calls that may require emergency medical services.