Beaufort County now has its first standalone emergency medical services station.
On Wednesday morning, Beaufort County Council and Beaufort County EMS hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new facility, located on Shanklin Road in Beaufort.
“I can’t even tell you how excited I was to get this station built. We have wanted this for as long as I’ve been an EMS,” said Beaufort County EMS Director Donna Ownby, who joined Beaufort County Councilman Gerald Dawson in delivering opening remarks.
Ownby began her EMS career in 1982 and became director in 2009. “This represents the county saying how much they appreciate all the hard work that these people do,” she told WSAV NOW. The Beaufort County engineering department handled project management for the new station.
It will house an ambulance with two crew members along with a quick-response vehicle with one crew member.