Calls on First Aid Squad Rise Over
• {In cote of emergency The Zip Code . ; • "":. eoll 37A-0400 for Pollen D»pnr(m»nt -for-5prmgfield-« ;v >r Flrrt Aid Squad ^4 for Fir* Department 07081 Published Evtry Thuudov' by Trumor Publishing Corp. 41 Mountoln ov«,, Sprlngfldd, N.J.O7OB1 - 686-7700 SPRINGFIELD, N.J. THURSDAY AUGUST 6, 1970 Subscription Rote Second Clai» Poitagt it,SO V.nrl/ Paid ot Sprlngllold, N.J. IS Cents Per Copy Calls on First Aid Squad rise over '69 38 percent e noted in man-hours More help is needed for growing demands Members of the Springfield First Aid Squad .logged 1,208 nian-Hours of service during the • first half of this year despite a. continuing need for additional volunteers, a squad spokes- man reported this'week. The figure represented a 38 percent increase over the 8,76 man-hours ' contributed by squad rtiembers in the equi- valent period of 1969. ••' Month-by-month figures, with the statistics for. 1970 given first, were: January,. 234 and 138; February, 171 and 120; March,. 158 and 105; April, 151 and-176; May, 212 and g/fe/d ;A/luriiqfpd['Poo/ '/n infra- by Boh Baxter 200, and June, 282 and 137. ' .'.. ' Distance covered by the squad's two am- bulances in the first half of the year came A to 5,068 miles, up 19 percent over last year's figure of 4,259. The breakdown; January, Miss Pool' to be chosen 1,020 and 1,158; February, 693 and 610; March, 628 and 409; April, 811 and 676; May, 818 and 764, and June, 1,098 and 642, The squad responded to a total of 416 calls in competition on Sunday during the past half-year.
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