Page 18 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • September 19, 2012 The Midland Park Volunteer Ambulance Corps recently took delivery of a 2013 6-ft. by12-ft. United enclosed trailer to be used as an emergency medical support unit. The new vehicle will make it possible to have all of the corps’ emergency equipment at the ready at the site for town disasters such as working structure fires, mass casualty incidents and natural disasters. It will also be stationed at all town functions and events as well as any other place where this equipment may be needed. “Right now most of the equipment is stored on shelves at the ambulance corps headquarters, and we realized it would be much more efficient to have it all stored in one mobile location,” explained Corps Captain Mike Junta. “What started as an idea for the needs of our near future quickly turned into a reality thanks to support from our local business community,” explained Junta. “Not once, did one business owner say ‘not interested,’” he said. Kuiken Brothers Lumber of Midland Park picked up the tab for the trailer, with borough resident Dean Mendrys, the owner of FDR Hitches in Hawthorne, helping figure out what would best suit the corps’ needs and providing the trailer and all equipment at cost. “Doug Kuiken stated to us ‘as 2012 is Kuiken Brothers’ 100th anniversary year and Midland Park Ambulance is having a Corps receives new mobile emergency unit 70th anniversary year, we decided to fund the entire purchase of the trailer as a gift from Kuiken Brothers to the Midland Park Ambulance Corps’,” said Junta. “We were thrilled that Mr. Kuiken and the Kuiken Brothers family decided to make this very valuable donation to the Midland Park Ambulance Corps, making it 100 percent free of charge to the ambulance corps and residents.” According to Junta, the need for the trailer surfaced in 2006 when the corps was dispatched for a working structure fire in town. En route to the scene, the crew was notified by the police department that there was a burn victim officers were tending to in that resident’s front yard. Upon arriving at the scene, corps members had to quickly take all of the fire equipment out of the back of the ambulance before they could load the patient for transport to the hospital. “Though the idea had remained, due to storage issues we knew it was something we could not yet consider. When we found out that Mr. David Bolger so generously decided to construct a new building to meet our needs, we figured now was a great time to begin looking into our idea,” Junta said. Bolger, a Ridgewood philanthropist, has purchased the barn at the Marlow Park property on Godwin Avenue and is reconstructing it for the ambulance corps head- Pictured in front of the new trailer, from left: Corps Lt. Claudia Manfredi, Lt. Joe Mulligan and Capt. Mike Junta. quarters, with a community room on the second floor. Junta said additional fundraising was needed for extra equipment the State of NJ State First Aid Council requires the corps to carry. “Our business community was great and we would like to also thank the following people for their donations: “Roger and Lucy of the Parkwood Deli, David Zuidema of David Zuidema Septic Tank Service, Ray Santhouse of Atlantic Stewardship Bank, our friends at the Midland Park Lions Club, Dave and Jean Pennington of All American Appliance Service of Midland Park, Ken Weite of Sears Hardware Midland Park, Eugene Myers of LaStrada Gourmet Deli, Joe Mulligan of Genua & Mulligan Printing Corp. of Clifton, Mike Fremgen of Fremgen Brothers Tree Ser- vice, a few anonymous donors, and another anonymous donor who covered all the costs of lettering our new unit. “As always we would like to thank each and every one of our residents and business owners for their continuing support,” Junta said. The new mobile unit is equipped with two Honda portable generators with emergency lighting, six disaster packs, water coolers, misting fans, tables and folding chairs, an emergency EZ-Up tent, mass causality incident management equipment, Tyvek suits, Haz-Mat suits, traffic cones, medical supplies and an automatic electronic defribulator unit, multi point oxygen port system, three working structure fire stand-by kits, member safety equipment, as well as other small items to be used in emergency medical management.