Birthday celebration at Albury
Albury Ambulance Station is celebrating its 75th Anniversary on Saturday
1 August 2009. To commemorate this important milestone, a
station Open Day is planned.
Albury Ambulance Station's foundation stone was laid on 1 August 1934 and the Station was officially opened on 13 December 1934. It was manned by a superintendent / secretary and a stretcher bearer and had two operational cars (see photograph) which responded to two to three cases each week.
During the late 1970s, Albury and District Ambulance became Murray Valley District Ambulance incorporating surrounding stations such as Corowa, Holbrook, Berrigan and others. During this time the station had eight staff and up to eight vehicles including two day care buses which transported ederly and special needs patients to and from rehabilitation centres and doctors appointments. Albury Station averaged eight cases per day, not including day care cases which numbered up to 100 per day.
In the 1980s, the station commenced a 24 hour roster and was extended at the rear to accommodate 20 staff and up to nine vehicles. Albury Station now has 27 staff, nine ambulance vehicles and a daily average case load of approximately 40, a long way from its humble beginnings.
Come and enjoy the Stations 75th Annivesary celebration Open Day on Saturday 1 August 2009, between 10am to 2pm at 663 Dean Street, Albury.
Ambulance is committed to assisting the community create safer and healthier environments and outcomes by making prevention everyone’s businesses. A number of innovative community education programs have been implemented to assist identify life threatening conditions, understand what to do in an emergency and the importance of adopting illness prevention strategies.