Providing emergency medical services to the Heart of Virginia.

Since 1969, the Prince Edward Volunteer Rescue Squad has provided primary emergency medical services to the Town of Farmville, Prince Edward County and parts of Cumberland County.

While time has brought many changes to the EMS industry, our community, and the world since our founding, the core of our mission remains the same: serving our community with heart and providing excellent medical care in the moments when our neighbors, friends, and families need us most.

Our agency is comprised of around 25 paid staff and 25 volunteers, meaning we are a dual or "split" agency. While we were founded as solely a volunteer agency, our work has changed, and our agency has changed with it. At present, we have four full-time crews on duty, covering EMS needs county-wide 24/7, 365 days of the year in a four-day shift rotation. We also have a part-time 12-hour crew on duty each day alongside the full-time crew.  We are proud to note that our 24-hour crews each have a Medic. Volunteer members—most of whom work full-time jobs, own local businesses, and have families—supplement our staffing, adding additional crews daily or working standby events.

We run five ambulances (Rescue 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14), an Advanced Life Support quick response vehicle called Medic One, a mass casualty incident (MCI) trailer, an ATV called Rescue 4, and an auxiliary pickup truck.