The Buffalo News
WORK BEGINS ON AMBULANCE CORPS FACILITY
Date: Monday, November 27, 1995
Section: LOCAL
Edition: CENTRAL
Page: B5
By BARBARA O’BRIEN – News Staff Reporter
Construction got under way today on the $900,000 Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corps facility.
Officers of the corps and representatives from the villages of Lancaster and Depew and the Town of Lancaster took part in groundbreaking ceremonies Sunday afternoon at 40 Embry Place, off Walden Avenue.
“We’ve outgrown the space allotted to us,” said corps President Danny F. Fliss.
The corps currently keeps three ambulances and one emergency response vehicle at facilities owned by the Town of Lancaster behind the Lancaster Opera House.
“We have to park one vehicle outside,” Fliss said.
The new 11,000-square-foot facility will include offices, bunk rooms, lockers, a physical-fitness room, a training room and a garage capable of housing four ambulances and two emergency-response vehicles, Fliss said.
The ambulance corps is paying for the new building in the Village of Lancaster through donations and a mortgage with M&T Bank, Fliss said.
Construction is expected to be completed in June.
The Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corps, the largest ambulance corps in Western New York, has 120 members and has been providing emergency services for more than 40 years.
Operating costs are about $400,000 per year, with money coming from the Town of Lancaster, donations from residents and local civic groups and third-party billing through insurance.
The Buffalo News
VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS GETS NEW HOME
Date: Monday, August 5, 1996
Section: LOCAL
Edition: CENTRAL
Page: B5
By JAY REY – News Cheektowaga Bureau
The Lancaster VolunteerAmbulance Corps was housed in a garage behind the Lancaster Opera House on Central Avenue, in accommodations so cramped that it had to park one of its ambulances outside. But no more.
Friday, the ambulance corps moved into a spacious new home — a $900,000 facility at 40 Embry Place in the Village of Lancaster.The new building has 11,000 square feet, compared with 2,200 at the former location, said Danny F. Fliss, corps president.
In November, Lancaster and Depew officials broke ground for the facility, situated at the end of the dead-end street.
The new building has offices, bunk rooms, shower accommodations, a physical-fitness room, a conference room, a lounge area and a garage capable of housing the corps’ three ambulances and emergency-response vehicle.
“In the old facility, all it has is an office, a dispatch room, a small lounge and a garage for three vehicles,” Fliss said.
The corps, which has about 100 active members, has been providing emergency services in Lancaster for more than 40 years, Fliss said. It began as an auxiliary of the Lancaster Police Department and became a separate agency in 1975.
Operating costs total about $400,000 a year, with money coming from the Town of Lancaster, donations from residents and local civic groups and insurance company payments for services.
The ambulance corps is paying for the new building with donations and a mortgage financed through M&T Bank.
The facility will be dedicated formally at 4 p.m. Saturday.
