Since its inception in 1969, the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad has been committed to serving the University community with the best possible emergency medical care available. The agency began responding to emergency calls in personal vehicles with medical equipment purchased through private donations. Charter members of the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad developed the bedrock goals, values, and missions that still define and guide our operations to this day. Today the agency operates with 40 members trained in basic and advanced life support procedures to give every patient the best possible care. The Rescue Squad operates a fleet of four advanced life support equipped ambulances, one advanced life support quick response vehicle, a communications interoperability command and control unit, a support truck, special operations unit, mass casualty response unit, Cycle Emergency Response Team, and an all terrain vehicle. Continually growing and varying, the EMS field is young and ever changing. The Virginia Tech Rescue Squad strives to provide the most cutting edge techniques and technologies to its patients.