Northwest Ambulance District

07/31/2025

Today, our department mourns the loss of a truly exceptional individual, EMT Chris Craft. He was not only a skilled EMT but also a beloved collegue to many. We will forever cherish the memories we shared and the impact he had on our lives and the lives of those Chris helped. Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts as they navigate this immense loss.

07/02/2025

Northwest Ambulance District is the 911 Ambulance for Geneva City and the Townships of Geneva, Austinburg, Harpersfield, and Trumbull and has been for over 50 years.

That being said, calls have not slowed down for 2025 with 438 of our calls between the hours of 2200-0800. NAD is also up 177 transports from this time last year!

05/15/2025

Ashtabula County was well represented by the three EMS districts today. With other members of the Ohio EMS Chiefs association they met with several legislators to discuss the needs of EMS in Ohio..

03/13/2025

It's almost time to renew your 2025 Northwest Ambulance District Membership! The mailers are not quite ready yet but you can visit our website anytime and renew online!

Remember! You do not need a NAD membership to receive our ambulance care but this membership entitles the head-of-household and dependents use of our rescue squad with NO out-of-pocket expense.

Northwest Ambulance District provides 9-1-1 Services to Geneva City and the townships of Austinburg, Harpersfield, Geneva and Trumbull.

💻 Visit the NAD website at www.northwestambulance.com TODAY to join! The cost is $20!

❗️You don’t have to have a PayPal account. Just click on checkout with PayPal and you can use your credit card without creating an account!

❤️ We always thank you for your continued support! If you are still interested in sending your membership the standard way, please be patient...they will be arriving soon!

✉️ If you join via our website, we will do our best to remove you from the mailing list for this year. If you still receive a paper form, please feel free to pass it on to someone that will benefit from being a member!

Any further questions, please feel free to email ashley@northwestambulance.com or message us via FB!

02/05/2025

Some shifts are busier than others, yesterday was one of them. In 24 hours, our crews handled 25 calls, from our normal EMS calls to assisting the local FD on their working structure fire. In the past 50 years, this has been one of our busiest shifts and our crews and off duty personnel stepped up and covered the calls. Stay safe and stay healthy out there!

01/12/2025

Ice is never 100% safe. There really is no sure answer to when ice is safe to be out on. You can't judge the strength of ice just by appearance, age, thickness, temperature, weather.

The strength of ice is based on all of these factors plus the depth of water under the ice, size of the body of water, chemistry, currents, distribution of the load on the ice, and the local climate conditions.

But what if you fall in?? Do not remove your winter clothing, turn toward the direction you came from, place your hands and arms on the broken surface and kick your feet and dig into the unbroken ice with your hands or ice picks if you have them. Once out or partially out, lie flat on the ice and roll away from the hold. Get to a warm dry shelter area, rewarm and call 911. The rewarming process is very dangerous for the heart and the body.

If someone falls through the ice, call 911! Resist the urge to run up to the hole and follow these steps.

PREACH, REACH, THROW, ROW AND GO!

PREACH - Shout to the victim and fight to survive!
REACH - Extend a rope, ladder, jumper cables, or a tree limb to the victim. Do not let yourself be pulled in!
THROW - Throw or toss anything that will float to the victim.
ROW - Find a boat to push across the ice ahead of you to the victim.
GO - If you are not trained to do so, you should not go. Heroics by a well-meaning but untrained rescuer may result in two casualties instead of one.

01/03/2025

Final call stats for 2024. As our multiple call at once numbers continue to rise, Northwest Ambulance District would like to thank the surrounding departments for their mutual aid support throughout the year.

12/25/2024

12/21/2024

Sending out a big THANK YOU to the following thoughtful & very generous local businesses, clubs & private citizens. They all donated to help make the Geneva Area Safety Forces Share a Christmas program a success this holiday season.

Thank you to all our shoppers, wrappers, box packing & delivery Safety Force members! This was a group effort with Geneva Safety Forces, Geneva Giant Eagle, Preferred Produce, especially Rhonda Baehr, the main organizer for this program.

We were able to provide for 52 families, with a total of 91 adults and 157 children to have a nice Christmas!

Special thanks to Darkroom Brewing Company for hosting our group after hours at the end of the evening.

11/01/2024

Let's catch up! October was a very busy and eventful month for NAD so we would like to fill you in on what's been going on!

October Call Stats:

325 Total Calls - 2,896 YTD Total Calls
- 34 MVAs
- 29 Respiratory
- 8 Cardiac
- 21 Invalid Assists
- 37 Falls
- 166 General / Medical
- 6 Fire
- 2 CVA / Stroke
- 3 Mutual Aid for Bariatric transports

176 Transports - 1,626 YTD Transports

Crews have been out and about covering Trunk or Treat Events, Geneva / St. John Football Games, Trick or Treat Days, and Ghoulfest.

2 Members of NAD were deployed with FEMA / GMR for Hurricane Helene / Milton Disaster Response Efforts.