09/02/2025
🚨 Save Tabernacle Rescue Squad – Stop the Dismantling of Services We Need 🚨
Why is it that politicians always seem to dismantle the very services our communities rely on? Why is it that instead of protecting what serves the people, they go after it—paving the way for privatization and profits?
This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about greed. We the people put them in office to serve us, not to take away essential resources. Yet, what do we get? Political appointees—individuals who aren’t accountable to us—overseeing decisions that directly affect our lives. It feels like the fox is watching the hen house.
The Tabernacle Rescue Squad is not just another service—it’s a lifeline for families, for neighbors, for every single person in this community. Stripping away or undermining this kind of service for political or financial gain is not only irresponsible—it’s dangerous.
We need transparency. We need accountability. And most of all, we need to remind our elected officials that they work for us—not for private interests.
It’s time to take a stand. Let’s raise our voices for Tabernacle Rescue Squad and for every public service that keeps our communities safe. Because once it’s gone, getting it back will be a fight ten times harder.
If not us, who?
This Labor Day holiday found our providers taking care of the serious and the non serious alike in both Tabernacle and Shamong. This evening there were a series of serious calls that underscore the concerns our agency has about the decision by our township committees to terminate our squad and replace us with two out of town agencies.
Tonight just after 6pm we were dispatched to an animal bite in Tabernacle along with the rig that will replace us from Southampton both on weekends and after 6pm on weeknights. There were two patients on scene. While that call was being handled by both crews a respiratory arrest was dispatched on the other side of Tabernacle. Evesham’s ambulance from 227 (Kings Grant) was dispatched to Tabernacle because they were the next closest available ambulance.
439 and 178s crews, realizing that both patients on their scene could be transported by 178, made a decision that allowed 4396 to divert to the arrest call and arrive well before 227 would have made it from Evesham. Due to the quick actions of our crew, and several of our members on scene, that patient was talking to our providers before they left for the hospital.
Upon their return a serious motor vehicle accident with entrapment was dispatched in Shamong. Three ambulances were called. All three responded from Tabernacle Rescue Squad, 4394, 4395, and 4396. Seven our members responded from the station and from home, well before mutual aid would have arrived.
Our third ambulance, 4395, transported one patient to ground to Cooper and while returning was asked to assist in Southampton on a cardiac arrest on New Road, down the street from our station. Our duty crew and off road unit were staffed in the station, therefore closer than our third rig, so responded to assist the rig from 178
Under our emergency services sub committee and township commitee’s plan 178 would have been on their own for all of these calls, and a few of their own in Southampton after 6pm.
Three critical calls in our local, all needing more than one ambulance quickly. An ambulance, or three in the case of the accident, that won’t be there in less than 70 days because our committee has said one is enough.
That’s not a shared service, that’s a reduction in service… service multiple patients in Tabernacle, Shamong, and Southampton desperately needed this Labor Day.
We encourage our residents to implore their elected officials to reverse the recommendations of the emergency services sub committee and keep the providers of the Tabernacle Rescue Squad responding to your call.
If not us, who?
