EMS History

A White Motor Corp. gas powered ambulance "Model K"
belonged to Kings County Hospital. 1908.

The first gasoline Ambulance of Kings County Hospital, circa 1908

An early electric powered Ambulance, circa 1908
Horse-drawn Ambulance: Bellevue Hospital circa 1909
Horse-drawn Ambulance: Flower Hospital circa 1910
Lenore Tierney, an early 20th Century Ambulance Driver.
(She is a Great Aunt of a current FDNY*EMS Command Dispatcher).
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1980 Coffin Demonstration