Syracuse Rescue Service

Syracuse Rescue Service Syracuse Rescue Service is an Emergency Medical Service that provides Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) service.

SRS provides 911 service, interfacility transfer, and ALS intercept.

When you call 911, the questions come fast, and it can feel like the dispatcher is holding things up. They are not. Ever...
08/19/2026

When you call 911, the questions come fast, and it can feel like the dispatcher is holding things up. They are not. Every question they ask is helping us get to you faster and arrive better prepared.

Here is what helps most.

Know your address. This sounds obvious until you are the one panicking in somebody else's kitchen. If you are out on a county road, look for the nearest intersection, a mile marker, or a landmark. Rural addresses are the single hardest part of our job.

Have a callback number ready, because if the call drops, dispatch needs a way to reach you.

Say what is happening in plain words. You do not need medical terms. Something like he is breathing but he will not wake up tells us everything we need.

Stay on the line. Dispatchers are trained to walk you through CPR, bleeding control, and even childbirth while help is on the way, and that guidance has saved lives in this county.

Turn on a porch light, and if you can, send somebody out to wave us down. At night on an unfamiliar road, that light is worth more than you would think.

None of this requires training. It just requires knowing it ahead of time, which you now do. 💙

It's National Volunteer Firefighter Day and we want to give a special shout-out to the Syracuse Volunteer Fire Departmen...
08/18/2026

It's National Volunteer Firefighter Day and we want to give a special shout-out to the Syracuse Volunteer Fire Department !

From grain bin fires, brush fires, car accidents, and even helping us with lift assists, we are proud to serve alongside them.

Thank you for all you do!

Here is what August looks like on the wall at the rescue barn.Three teams take turns covering the month. Weeknights some...
08/18/2026

Here is what August looks like on the wall at the rescue barn.

Three teams take turns covering the month. Weeknights somebody is on from six in the evening until six the next morning, and weekends are the full twenty four hours. By the end of the month that adds up to 492 hours, and there is not one day on that calendar without a team's name next to it.

Honestly, most of it looks a lot less dramatic than people expect. It is regular life with a pager sitting on the counter. You go to work, you make supper, you get the kids to bed, you watch the end of the game. Plenty of nights nothing happens at all. Then every so often that pager goes off, and you go, and a couple hours later you are pulling back into your own driveway.

Not one of us started out knowing how to do any of this. Every person on that calendar was taught from scratch by somebody who had been on the schedule a little longer, and that is still how it works around here. You bring the willingness to show up and we handle the rest.

You will also spot a rig check on the fourth and a training night on the seventeenth, because staying ready is its own kind of shift.

The short version is that every hour on that calendar is somebody choosing to be available.

Thank you to the crew for filling it, and thank you to the families and employers who make it possible. 💙

Life on call means your dinner has a very specific relationship with your pager. 😂You can sit down at five o'clock and n...
08/17/2026

Life on call means your dinner has a very specific relationship with your pager. 😂

You can sit down at five o'clock and nothing happens. You can sit down at quarter to six and nothing happens. But the moment you actually pick up the fork, that pager knows. Somehow it always knows.

Every one of us has a story about the meal we never got to finish. Most of us stopped being surprised by it a long time ago, and a few have simply started eating standing up, closer to the door, just in case.

It is a small thing to trade. We would much rather be the person who leaves dinner than the person who is not there when a neighbor needs help. But we would be lying if we said we did not think about that plate the whole way there.

Fellow first responders, what is the worst possible moment your pager has ever gone off? We know you have one. 👇

08/08/2026

🐝 SCENARIO ANSWER 🐝

On Thursday we put you at a backyard cookout with someone who had just been stung by a wasp, with swelling lips, a blotchy face, and a throat that felt like it was closing. A lot of you spotted it right away. This is anaphylaxis, and it is a true emergency.

Here is what matters most in those first minutes. Call 911 immediately. If the person carries an epinephrine auto injector, or if anyone nearby has one, use it in the outer thigh. Epinephrine is the only thing that works fast enough once the airway is involved, and an antihistamine is simply too slow to help here.

A few things worth knowing. Once swelling starts moving toward the throat it can progress quickly, so it is better to act early than to wait and watch. You cannot cause harm by giving epinephrine to someone having an allergic reaction, so if you are unsure, use it. And call 911 even if the person starts feeling better, because these reactions can come back an hour or two later.

Nice work to everyone who called it. That is exactly the kind of thing worth knowing long before you need it. 💙

08/06/2026

🐝 SCENARIO TIME 🐝

You are at a backyard cookout on a warm August evening when someone gets stung by a wasp near the drink table. At first it seems like nothing. Then within a few minutes their lips start to swell, their face goes blotchy, and they tell you their throat feels tight.

What do you do first?

Drop your answer in the comments. We will walk through what actually matters in a moment like this on Saturday.

No medical background required to play along. Half of knowing what to do is having thought about it once before it ever happens. 💙

The Otoe County Fair wrapped up yesterday, and we wanted to say thank you.Thank you to everyone who came out to the rode...
08/04/2026

The Otoe County Fair wrapped up yesterday, and we wanted to say thank you.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the rodeo Saturday night, and to everyone who lined 5th Street for the parade on Sunday. The waves from the curb are the best part of that route every single year, and this one was no exception.

Thank you also to the families who let their kids climb through the rig and ask a hundred questions, and to the folks who stopped simply to say they appreciate what this squad does. Those conversations mean more than you know.

And thank you to the Otoe County Agricultural Society and everyone who spends months putting this fair together. A fair this good does not happen on its own, and most of the work behind it is done by volunteers who never get named.

Drop your favorite photo from the weekend in the comments. We would love to see them. 👇

The Otoe County Fair starts tomorrow, and you will see the squad out there three times this weekend.We will be at the ro...
07/30/2026

The Otoe County Fair starts tomorrow, and you will see the squad out there three times this weekend.

We will be at the rodeo Saturday night, and then we roll in the fair parade on Sunday at 4:00 on 5th Street. After that you can find us at the Side by side races. If you are lining the curb with the kids, give us a wave. We will be watching for you.

Fair weekend is one of our favorite stretches of the whole year. It puts this entire community in one place, and it is a good reminder of exactly who we are out here for.

If you spot the rig, come say hello. The kids are welcome to look inside, and we are always happy to answer questions about what we do and what all that equipment is actually for.

See you at the fairgrounds. 💙

Will we see you at the parade on Sunday? 👇

We know the on-call schedule is the part that makes people the most nervous, so let's talk about it honestly.Syracuse Re...
07/29/2026

We know the on-call schedule is the part that makes people the most nervous, so let's talk about it honestly.

Syracuse Rescue uses scheduled on-call shifts for one reason. Our call volume is real, and this community deserves to know that when they dial 911, someone is not just hoping to be available, they are assigned and ready. A schedule is a promise, and we take it seriously.

But here is the part most people miss. The schedule is built from teams, and every new member lets us build more of them. More teams means each person is on call less often. So the schedule is not a fixed burden you sign up for and carry forever. It is a load that gets lighter every single time someone new says yes, and it has been getting lighter all year.

Ever wonder what being on a rescue team actually looks like month to month? This is our July duty calendar.Three teams s...
07/27/2026

Ever wonder what being on a rescue team actually looks like month to month? This is our July duty calendar.

Three teams share the month, rotating through night and weekend coverage. On-call shifts run Monday through Friday from 6 PM to 6 AM and around the clock on weekends and holidays, while our day crew handles weekday daytime calls. So when a member is on call, they are covering nights and weekends only, and the rest of the time their schedule is their own.

Here is the part people like best. As our roster grows, so does the number of teams, and every new team means fewer shifts for everyone. More neighbors sharing the load makes this easier for all of us, which is exactly how it should work.

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578 Mohawk Street
Syracuse, NE
68446

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+14022692111

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