Waynesboro First Aid Crew

10/29/2025

🎉 Auxiliary Celebrating 70 Years of Dedication! 🚑💙

Recently on Saturday, October 25th, the Waynesboro First Aid Crew “Auxiliary” celebrated an incredible milestone - their 70th Anniversary! Auxiliary members (active and inactive) and former members joined together to celebrate seven (7) decades of selfless service, unwavering commitment, and countless acts of compassion that have touched the lives of so many across the Waynesboro community.

Chaplain Richard Ammonds from Waynesboro Fire Department led the opening invocation. WFAC inactive life members including Jerry Beard, Dr. Asher Brand, Gary Critzer, Dee Price, and Ashley Cook shared words of gratitude and heartfelt congratulations to the Auxiliary members present. Since its founding in February 1955, the Auxiliary has been a pillar of support, compassion, and commitment. From fundraising and community outreach to behind-the-scenes support, the WFAC Auxiliary has been there in our community’s times of greatest need.

To all past and present Auxiliary members: thank you for your unwavering service and dedication! ❤️💙 Congratulations on 70 years of excellence—and many more to come! 🎉

10/20/2025

Keeping our students safe is a shared responsibility for everyone on the roadway. Please remember to stop for stopped school buses 🚌 with flashing red lights and an extended stop sign 🛑 when approaching from any direction.

Waynesboro, VA — National School Bus Safety Week is October 20-24, 2025. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is urging drivers to slow down and be aware of school buses in their communities. Although school buses are one of the safest modes of transportation, injuries and fatalities do occur outside of or near the buses. Most often, these tragedies occur because a motorist has failed to slow down and obey the bus’s stop sign, or to follow local traffic laws. Nationally, school bus passing is illegal, and it is a deadly risk to bus riders and their caregivers. Drivers should always come to a complete stop when a school bus stop-arm is extended and the red lights are flashing.

09/29/2025

A healthy and active life can always be beneficial to your heart.❤️ So, on World Heart Day - September 29 make a self-promise to take care of your heart! ❤️‍🩹

09/11/2025

As today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11, we honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost that day and the bravery of all who answered the call. 💔🚓🚒🚑 Their courage should always be a reminder of the strength we must continue to strive for. Today we bow in silence, for the courage that inspires and for the memory that keeps our nation united. We will always remember. We will never forget. 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🙏🏻

09/01/2025

As we celebrate the social and economic achievements of all American workers, we send a special thank you to all the essential employees, healthcare heroes, and public servants who are working this Labor Day. Today, we honor the police officers, firefighters, hospital staff, dispatchers, and fellow EMS professionals who embody the spirit of service and sacrifice. Your commitment to public safety and well-being helps keep our community running. Thank you for your bravery, resilience, and tireless efforts! 🛠️✨⚕️🏥 🗣️🚓 🚒 🚑 💪🏻 🎉 🇺🇸 We wish everyone a safe and happy Labor Day! 💙💛❤️🤍

08/29/2025

Waynesboro First Aid Crew extends our deepest, heartfelt sympathy to Mandy McComas, Steve Reese and family on the passing of their loved one Zack Reese. Our thoughts and prayers also extend to City of Staunton Fire and Rescue Department for the loss of their beloved Firefighter brother. 🙏🏻🧑🏻‍🚒 Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. “Greater love have no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13. 🙏🏻❤️ Rest peacefully Zack.

It is with profound sadness we announce the untimely passing of Firefighter Zack Reese from injuries sustained in an off-duty motor vehicle crash.

Zack has been with the department since December 2024 and previously worked for Augusta County Fire-Rescue and volunteered with Raphine Volunteer Fire Department.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends. He will be missed by many.

08/24/2025

Attention Providers! Life-Guard 12 will be holding an airway training lab hosted by Stuarts Draft Rescue Squad on September 25th, 2025. Enhance your skills, have a good time, and earn 2 hours of CE!

08/04/2025

Pizza day!!!! Nothing like a Monday night pizza!!! DN6 is the code! Support your local EMS agency!

Come one and come all! We have exciting news! Our friends at the locally owned Domino’s in Waynesboro has graciously partnered with the Waynesboro First Aid Crew with a new fundraiser!

On the first Monday of EVERY month, if you mention the Waynesboro First Aid Crew while placing an order, 20% of your order will go to the Crew! Ordering online? Use the code DN6 to apply the promotion!

Order at 1380 W Broad St in Waynesboro or at 540-932-0000. Order online at www.dominos.com

Mondays are a great night to order pizza!

08/03/2025

The Waynesboro First Aid Crew and Auxiliary have lost a special part of our family. 💔 It is with profound soundness and heavy hearts to announce the passing of Auxiliary, Life Member Audrey Kerby Roberts on Thursday, July 31, 2025.

A longtime resident of the Shenandoah Valley, Audrey was born on December 12, 1937, in Waynesboro, VA. Audrey had a successful career working at Wayn-Tex, a long-time carpet backing plant in Waynesboro, VA.

In addition to her parents, Audrey was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, James Wade “Jim” Roberts (WFAC life member); son, James Leslie “Les” Roberts; siblings, Lyle Kerby and Mary Belle Whitt.

Outside her home and professional life, Audrey became a volunteer member of the Auxiliary of the Waynesboro First Aid Crew in November 1963, known then as the Ladies Auxiliary of Waynesboro First Aid Crew. Audrey’s late husband, Jim, who became a volunteer “senior crew” member of WFAC just three months prior in August 1963, helped recruit her as an auxiliary member.

Following in her husband’s footsteps, Audrey also had a desire and devotion toward serving others and was an integral part of the WFAC Auxiliary for greater than five (5) decades. For fifty-two (52) years, Audrey faithfully dedicated innumerable hours of service to WFAC Auxiliary and the Waynesboro community. During Audrey’s volunteer service with the Auxiliary, she held multiple Auxiliary officer positions to include President, Vice President, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Historian, and Chaplain. In addition, Audrey served on multiple committees over the years to include Ways and Means, Social, Membership, and Bereavement. After many years of unwavering dedication and volunteer service, Audrey received life membership of the WFAC Auxiliary in December 1977.

Audrey will be fondly remembered by her friends and WFAC family for being quick witted, outspoken, and always willing to help others. She will be deeply missed by our organization and the many lives she touched through her community service. Our thoughts and prayers will be with her family. 🙏🏻❤️

There is no greater purpose than service to others. Audrey, thank you for your fifty-two (52) years of faithful, outstanding, and unselfish service to Waynesboro First Aid Crew and the community it serves! 💚 “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). ❤️🚑💙

Audrey it was a pleasure serving alongside you~ you were one of a kind and will never be forgotten! With heavy hearts, your friends and WFAC family say, “May God Bless your beautiful soul and may you rest in eternal peace. We love you, Audrey!”

A full obituary can be found at: https://www.charltonandgroomefuneralhome.com/obituary/Audrey-Roberts

07/31/2025

Thank you Dooms Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. for hosting us! They put on an extrication class and allowed WFAC to join. With this training, we learned how to safely extricate, treat patients and work together. This allows us to work efficiently and effectively when the time arises!

07/20/2025

Congratulations, Will! Will was recently released as an Advanced EMT! We’re so proud of you and your hard work! Keep it up!

05/19/2025

A heartfelt THANK YOU to One4One Ministries of Waynesboro for your incredible generosity this weekend! 🩶

To kick EMS week off early, on Saturday, you blessed our team with an abundance of fresh fruit. Then on Sunday, we were treated to special goody-bags filled with a variety of snacks. Your kindness and thoughtfulness made a big impact going into EMS Week, and we truly appreciate your continued support.

From all of us at Waynesboro First Aid Crew, thank you for keeping us fueled, encouraged, and uplifted in positive thoughts! 🚑🙏