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The Dickson City Community Ambulance serves the boroughs
of Dickson City, and Throop, Pennsylvania with two Basic Life Support (BLS)
Ambulances. As one of the busiest BLS ambulance companies in Lackawanna
County, we are dispatched to about 1600 incidents each year. Our ambulances
are dispatched by the Lackawanna County Communications Center to various
types of incidents within the Boroughs including medical calls, motor
vehicle crashes, every fire call the Dickson City and Throop Fire
Departments are dispatched to, as well as occasional assistance to surrounding
communities.
Once located in the same building as the Dickson City
Fire Department, The Dickson City Community Ambulance moved out of the Fire
Department and into our current location at 2 Eagle Lane in 1988. The
building constructed in 1988 provided two truck bays, a kitchen, and meeting
room. A building addition completed in early 2006 added about 2400 square
feet to the existing building and provided space for an additional truck
bay, crew room, bunk room, offices, and storage.
Dickson City is a 4.7 square mile section of
Lackawanna County just east of Scranton with a population of about 6,200. The
population of Dickson City can double or triple during the day when shoppers
and retail employees converge on the borough to conduct business.
During the past decade, the Viewmont Drive and Commerce Boulevard area has
seen an explosion of development with the opening of dozens of national
chain stores and restaurants. Just a few of the well-known businesses
within our coverage area include: The Viewmont Mall, Dickson City
Crossings, Wegman's, Walmart, Macys, JCPennys, Target, K-Mart, Kohls, Giant, Home Depot,
Lowes, as well as dozens of restaurants, hundreds of other businesses, and a
1.5 mile section of heavily traveled U.S Rt. 6. Route 6 handles more than
40,000 vehicles each day
Throop is a 5.0 square mile section of Lackawanna
County located to the south of Dickson City with a population of about 4,000. Throop
Borough has seen its share of development in recent years with the
construction of a 3 mile section of Industrial Highway, a recently expanded
school system, as well as countless businesses and manufacturing
facilities. Some of the major businesses located in Throop include Gertrude
Hawk Chocolates, Harper Collins Publishers, and Nivert Metal Supply.
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