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Talk about privately funding a public service.

In their mission of supplying emergency medical attention and transportation to injured or ill people in the Wilton area, the Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Inc. (WVAC) has seen a call volume increase of 9-percent annually–and yet less than 10-percent of operating costs are provided from town funds. When you put it in the perspective that your life may depend on the generosity of private donations from town residents to the WVAC, it ...

The Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps., Inc. (WVAC) is there for you when you need us. WVAC’s annual fundraising drive is underway. Be our partner in saving lives!

Who We Are: WVAC is a team of more than 50 certified Emergency Medical Technicians and
Emergency Medical Responders.

• Our purpose is to provide the highest quality prehospital emergency medical care.
• For 37 years, we have provided the primary emergency medical service in town.
• Our volunteers donate 18, 500 service hours per year to ...

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease and Awareness Month and Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps is focusing on medical and traumatic injury risk awareness.

In recognition of National Alzheimer’s Disease and Awareness Month (NADAM), the Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Inc. (WVAC) is focusing on medical and traumatic injury risk awareness for those with Alzheimer’s living alone.

We understand that emergencies with individuals with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia require a calm, compassionate and knowledgeable approach by our emergency medical volunteers ...

Elizabeth Clark, an EMT with WVAC, oversees a CPR & AED demonstration during Ambler Farm Day while some potential lifesavers look on.

The Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps have put together an “It Can Wait” scarecrow.

With the help of Nancy Capelle, Robert Storck, Deborah Fialla and Shawn Iannacone, the ghostly driver-turned-scarecrow is perched in a tree at 234 Danbury Rd at the WVAC house on the hill and will be moving shortly to take up residence in Wilton Center.

Deborah Fialla, who is both a 25-year paramedic, currently with Norwalk Hospital, as well as an interior decorator, sourced the car door from Redding Fire Dept. It was from a donated car wreck that ...