This year, the Water Witch Fire Company of Port Deposit marks an important milestone in the department’s history, a half-century of EMS service to the community. It was in the autumn of 1964 that the Company purchased its first ambulance, a 1957 Oldsmobile from the Union Fire Company of Oxford.
With that important enhancement, Port Deposit EMS was launched, providing much faster emergency medical service to residents of the greater Port Deposit area, with an ambulance stationed at Station 7 in the center of the Susquehanna River town.
To support the service, an ambulance membership drive was started with subscribers contributing $3 a year. The secretary-treasurer of the fund, Russell McFall, was the first member, and Port Deposit Mayor Hubert F. Ryan and Ambulance Captain William H. Keetley were on hand to accept the donation. Anyone wishing to subscribe to the ambulance service as instructed to contact McFall at DR 5-7271.
