08/14/2026
Today, we did something a little old-fashioned to welcome something very new.
Wilton Ambulance Service officially welcomed our new 2026 ambulance with a traditional apparatus push-in ceremony.
The tradition reaches back to the days of hand-drawn and horse-drawn emergency apparatus, when crews would return from a call, unhitch their equipment and manually maneuver it back into the station. Over time, what began as necessity became ceremony.
It is a tradition that feels particularly appropriate for an ambulance. EMS has its own history of horse-drawn ambulances, followed by generations of vehicles that evolved from simple transportation into the mobile emergency medical units we work from today.
So today, our crew put their hands on it and pushed it into its new home together, symbolically wishing safe travels for the crews who will serve aboard it and for every patient it will carry.
May it carry our crews safely, serve our communities faithfully, and always bring us home.
Welcome home 30A2.