04/07/2026
For 45 years, Janice Gebke has served the City of Breese as an EMT and she's still going! Here, she's holding the first group picture of dedicated volunteers that was taken in 1981, a few months after the service officially began. Gebke was in the first class of EMTs to get the City of Breese Ambulance Service staffed when it started on January 1, 1981. See the comments for a closer look at this picture, with Janice standing in the front row and third from the left with her father, Al Gebke, seated in the middle. Mr. Al Gebke was the Chief of Police and first director of the ambulance service.
More on the history of Breese EMS and our current crews can be found in next month's issue of Neighbors of Clinton County - Best Version Media!
