Community Ambulance Company Responds to Call

On June 5 the Community Ambulance Co. was dispatched to the report of a plane into a building at 1610 Ocean Ave in Bohemia.

According to Jamie Ryan Atkinson, Chief of the Department and President of the Town of Islip Ambulance Chiefs Association, the Community Ambulance Company immediately responded with two Advanced Life Support Ambulances, a Paramedic Fly-Car and three Chiefs.

The first EMS unit arrived on scene within four minutes and confirmed a small aircraft had crashed into the face of a building and was fully engulfed in flames.

The two occupants were treated by EMS crews from the Community Ambulance Co. The pilot was transported by Community Ambulance Co. to Stony Brook University Medical Center after suffering minor burn injuries. The Co-Pilot of the aircraft was treated by Community Ambulance Co. unit and transported to an awaiting medevac helicopter for air transport to Stony Brook University Medical Center with critical burn injuries.

A third patient, who attempted to assist the plane occupants, was transported by Community Ambulance Co. unit to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital with shortness of breath in stable condition.

According to Atkinson , a total, of three patients were transported by the local ambulance company.

Community Ambulance Co. has been providing emergency medical services to the towns of Sayville, West Sayville, Bohemia, Bayport, and Oakdale since 1950.