It’s Ambulance Week from September 12-16 and the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is inviting the community to join in the celebrations.

This year also signals 25 years since 96 individual Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigades (QATB) transformed into one state-administered service to become the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) as we know it today. It is also 25 years since Local Ambulance Committees (LACs) were introduced to maintain the ambulance services close connection to the community.

To celebrate this, Magnetic Island Ambulance Station is holding a station Open Day to give locals a chance to discover more about the QAS and its vital work as well as learn how to keep their loved ones safe and help them in an emergency.

As Magnetic Island is a joint Emergency Services Facility, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) will also be present on the day.

QFES will conduct a Road Crash Rescue scenario to demonstrate the specialised cutting equipment they use to extricate patients entrapped inside a vehicle. This scenario will also showcase how QFES and QAS work together to treat patients in emergencies.

If you live in or around Magnetic Island, drop by the combined station and learn how to conduct CPR, check out the vital medical equipment in use and have a Q/A session with paramedics, LACs and firefighters.

WHO: QAS and QFES Magnetic Island staff and volunteers will hold a station open day and Road Crash Rescue scenario to celebrate Ambulance Week

WHEN: 10am- 2pm Thursday 15 September

WHERE: Magnetic Island Ambulance Station

52 Kelly Street, Nelly Bay