History
1968
1968 Tri-Village Rescue was started by a Stortz funeral home who donated a used hearse ambulance, the first group of people went through local training and became the first EMT’s in the area. The ambulance was housed in different buildings such as the New Madison Volunteer Fire Department and the Village Administration building. The department used the hearse ambulance as well as purchased a used ambulance built by Wayne Works out of Piqua Ohio.
The department was funded by bake sales and car washes as well as donations from local businesses.
1973 - 1975
In October of 1973 a group of township trustees got together and formed the Tri-Village Joint Ambulance District and placed a .5 mil levy to help support the Ambulance District.
In 1975 the department received its first new ambulance from a federal grant that the county received taking the Hearse ambulance out of service. The joint ambulance District also built the old station on land donated by flag lumber on Wayne St. in New Madison this 2-bay garage served as the main station until 2002 when we moved to the current station on Main Street.
1988
1988 the department purchased it’s first brand new ambulances which was a Braun at the cost of $58,526.00 this ambulance was placed in the Liberty Township Fire Department and handled all the calls in the northern part of the district.
The department ran as a Basic Life Support department in 1992 TVRS became and Advance Life Support organization with 5 people going through a Paramedic Program.
2000 - now
2000 The board of Trustees hired a full-time Chief to run the day-to-day operations.
2002 The department bought and remodel the current station which gave the department 6000 Square feet of space with offices, conference center and living quarters for the staff.
In 2005 due to the shortage of EMT’s and Paramedic’s in the nation and the large amount of education to become EMT or Paramedic the Board hired all the volunteers as part time employees.
Today the department has 26 part-time employees with 2 ALS ambulances, a staff response vehicle and a disaster/rehab truck responding to 650 to 700 calls each year.
