Hall Ambulance honors its fallen during National Emergency Medical Services Week
Hall Ambulance Service, Inc.
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Hall Ambulance Memorial.
While EMS Week is intended to celebrate those emergency medical services professionals who dedicate their lives to responding to those in need of medical aid, it is also important to pause and reflect on those who lost their life while serving.
Whether their passing occurred while on duty or away from work, Hall Ambulance has felt a desire to honor their life and work contributions by placing a marker with their name in the Hall Ambulance Memorial Garden. It served as a place for quiet reflection and remembrance of the fallen for many years.
Recently, Hall Ambulance President and CEO Lavonne C. Hall unveiled the new Hall Ambulance Memorial redesigned with blue granite, bronze lettering and stone to pay proper tribute to past and future fallen employees.
"As today, May 19, marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of my husband, I would like to set this date aside to honor those EMS workers who have served this community and whose names appear on the new Hall Ambulance Memorial," Hall said.
The Memorial can be visited on the south side of 21st Street between N and O Streets, in downtown Bakersfield.
Names listed on the Hall Ambulance Memorial
Sandy Newby
Dispatcher
05/04/1956 – 06/08/1981
Tom J. Hvizdos, EMT I
Assistant Operations Manager
08/18/1956 – 01/28/1988
Kenneth Johnson
Medi-Van Driver
11/10/1948 – 07/20/2002
Edwin W. Bauder
Paramedic Intern
02/01/1964 – 06/25/2003
Andrew Joseph Green
Paramedic Field Supervisor
05/02/1978 – 05/03/2007
Penny Vest
Paramedic
05/16/1951 – 09/06/2007
Edward Searfoss, EMT-P
Director of Quality Assurance
07/08/1979 – 06/06/2014
Dorothy McGee
Contracts Coordinator, Business Office
07/09/1950 – 08/20/2016
Lawrence Mundschau
Paramedic
01/14/1961 – 11/25/2017
Harvey L. Hall
Founder
01/05/1941 – 05/19/2018
Breeanna Ledesma
Medical Supply Technician
08/03/1998 – 09/24/2018
Heather Taylor
Paramedic
09/09/1974 – 12/17/2019
Fransue Pratt
Medical Supply Technician
01/08/1976 – 01/14/2021
Eric Calderon
Paramedic
05/08/1984 – 08/04/2021
Trenton Jones
EMT
03/12/1999 – 11/20/2021
