Hot Springs Ambulance Service

06/19/2026

HSAS had the privilege of being called upon to provide medical support on the South Fork Fire.
We are grateful for the opportunity, and people we met along the way!

06/08/2026

Please stay aware while out and about this summer.

🚨🐍 Rattlesnake Awareness in Rapid City 🐍🚨

Our Animal Control Officers wanted to share a little information with our community due to a recent increase in rattlesnake bite incidents being reported in and around Rapid City.

Rattlesnakes are a natural part of the Black Hills ecosystem and play an important role in controlling rodent populations. While encounters can be alarming, most bites occur when people or pets get too close or attempt to handle a snake.

As temperatures rise and more people are enjoying the outdoors, please keep the following in mind:

• Stay alert in rocky areas, tall grass, wood piles, and along trails.
• Keep dogs leashed and under control when hiking.
• Watch where you place your hands and feet.
• Never attempt to touch, corner, relocate, or kill a rattlesnake.
• Give snakes plenty of space and allow them a safe escape route.

If you encounter a rattlesnake:
🐍 Stay calm.
🐍 Slowly back away.
🐍 Keep children and pets at a safe distance.
🐍 Warn others in the area.

If a person or pet is bitten:
⚠️ Seek immediate medical or veterinary attention.
⚠️ Keep movement to a minimum.
⚠️ Do not attempt old home remedies such as cutting the wound, sucking out venom, or applying ice.

Rattlesnakes don’t want to interact with people any more than we want to interact with them. A little awareness and caution can help keep both our community and our local wildlife safe.

Stay safe out there, Rapid City—and enjoy the beautiful Black Hills responsibly!

06/02/2026

Good cluster of classes on the docket tonight!

Tonight at 6:00 PM at the Hot Springs Ambulance Station is our last education night before the live scale MCI Drill!

Topics tonight include MCI/Scene Management along with a additional Landing Zone class with hands on training with the aircraft! Food and drinks will be provided! See you all tonight! 😎

05/26/2026

Excellent instructors and excellent classes to kick off mid week with!

Reminder! We have our Fall River County MCI education night #2 happening tonight at 6:00PM!

Tonight’s topics:
Vehicle Extrication – taught by Wade Waugh
Care of Traumatic Injuries – taught by Air Methods

Food and drinks will be provided! We hope to see everyone there for another great night of education!

05/25/2026

That concludes a wrap on our EMS week! We are extremely grateful for all the love and support we received this week!
Thank you to Fall River Dispatch, BHLF, and Fall River health services who came by and gave us goodies!
To everyone who made the open house possible- thank you to all who showed up. To the business that donated. To the Grapentine parents for making all the spaghetti. To the crew / people who helped out, set up, and clean up. All of this is greatly appreciated and does not go unnoticed!
Congratulations to our award winners!
Star of life- Cheyenne Erwin
New certification/ license- Blake Buckley
ROSC- Maddie Cowles
Paramedic of the year- Caroline Lashley
EMT of the year- Ryan Velarde
❤️🚨

05/24/2026

What a beautiful day for a spaghetti feed with our community, friends and family…please join us this evening for food, raffle prizes, and close ups of our ambulances. A little birdy told me the helicopter can be seen up close as well! We hope to see you there!

Join us again this year for EMS week open house!
This year is home made spaghetti 🍝 and raffle for a chance to win prizes donated by local businesses.
💙🤍

05/21/2026

Last but not least, here is to our paramedics of Hot Springs Ambulance Service. They are highly trained emergency medical professionals who stabilize critically ill or injured patients outside the hospital. Paramedics perform advanced, life-saving procedures like starting IV's, administering medications and managing airways. Paramedics must complete approximately 1,200-1,800 hours of intense training, and continuing training as long as they hold a license. Please stop us and say hi if you see any of our wonderful crews out and about. (We all really like Daves) 🤪

05/20/2026

We are taking today to appreciate our AEMT's in our group! Advanced EMT's are a mid-level EMS provider, bridging the gap between basic and paramedic level ALS interventions. Our advances have to complete another 150-180 hours on top of their EMT-B credentials. We love our advanced EMT's!

05/19/2026

Today, we would like to take a minute to honor our Emergency Medical Technicians during this EMS week. These are some of the amazing faces you can see out in public or on a call. EMT's provide pre-hospital basic life support and medical transportation for emergent patients. To become an EMT-B, you must successfully complete a state approved program that ranges from 120-180 hours. EMT's absolutely save paramedics, and we have some of the best!