Van Buren Ambulance Service

02/17/2026

🚑✨ Meet the Fleet: Van Buren A1 Is Now in Service! ✨🚑

Van Buren A1, our brand new 2025 BRAUN BOX, is officially on the road and ready to serve.

This is not just another ambulance. It was designed to work smarter, protect our crew, and deliver the highest level of patient care.

Here is what makes A1 stand out:

🔹 A power load stretcher system that helps reduce lifting strain and lowers the risk of back injuries. Safer for our providers and smoother for our patients.
🔹 Enhanced scene and patient care lighting so crews can see clearly and work confidently in any situation.
🔹 Smart emergency lighting that automatically switches to a secondary pattern on scene to help prevent night blindness from passing traffic, keeping our providers safer while they work.
🔹 Expanded storage compartments that hold our updated emergency equipment, keeping everything organized and ready when seconds matter most.

Van Buren A1 is equipped, organized, and mission ready. If you see A1 responding, you can trust that advanced care is on the way. 🚨

02/17/2026

Meet our Fleet! Van Buren A2 (2019 DEMERS) and A1 (2025 BRAUN)

01/18/2026

12/12/2025

Our crew attended more training to give the community the best care possible!

11/01/2025

2025 trunk or treat!

08/04/2025

Thank you to the Madawaska Fire Department - Offical Page for inviting our department to this highly effective training. It is a valuable addition to our toolbox.

06/14/2025

Phoenix Award receiptiants!

Again we are recognizing outstanding service within our emergency medical team.

Paramedic Mike Morrow and his team responded to one of the most critical calls an EMS provider can face: a person in cardiac arrest. This means no pulse, no breathing—clinically, the person is clinically dead. However, thanks to the quick, skilled, and composed efforts of Mike and his fellow responders, that story didn’t end there.

Through effective CPR, timely defibrillation, medication administration, and advanced paramedic-level care, they were able to achieve something we call ROSC—Return of Spontaneous Circulation. In simpler terms, they restarted a heart and brought someone back to life.

Maine EMS awards what’s known as the Phoenix Award, named after the mythical bird that rises from the ashes. This award is given to paramedics and EMS crews who successfully bring a patient back from cardiac arrest with a successful return of a heartbeat and circulation.

Congratulations to Mike Morrow, Gloria Ouellette, Eddie Saucier and Peter Madore for their lifesaving efforts, for their professionalism, and for proving that in our small town, heroes walk among us.

06/01/2025

Blood pressure screenings!

05/25/2025

EMS week wrapped up!
We celebrated our dedicated providers today with a BBQ.
Thanks to Saucier’s for donating the meat!

05/22/2025

Wednesday marked a significant milestone for Gloria as she received the prestigious Maine EMS Lifetime Achievement Award, joined by family and colleagues, in recognition of her tireless efforts on behalf of our service and town.