During the month of March, everyone is invited to learn about making informed food choices and developing healthful eating and physical activity habits. “Balance” is the latest work on heart-healthy eating, according to a new report that encourages people to adopt broad eating habits instead of focusing on single foods…
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Burn Awareness Week is February 6th through 12th. The Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad would like to take this opportunity to share a burn awareness and prevention message with our community. One of the most common injuries that can occur in the home are burns, and the places children get burned most is in the kitchen and the bathroom.
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Recent data show the number of children killed or injured due to furniture and TV tip-overs has decreased significantly but work on this issue is not done. With news stories, recalls, and legislation driving momentum to make our homes safer, the Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad is joining the effort to reach even more Manassas-area residents with the message to anchor furniture and televisions.
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The worst blood shortage in more than 10 years is threatening patient care. The time to give blood is NOW! View upcoming opportunities to save up to three lives by giving blood near you!
Read MoreAs Northern Virginia and the nation cautiously made their way through a second year of pandemic-related precautions and life-style adjustments, the American Red Cross (ARC) and the Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad (GMVRS) built upon their years-long partnership by setting a new one-year record blood donation at the Squad’s Hutton…
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September 10, 1964 to May 7, 2021 Robert Kenneth Gring passed away at home, on May 7, 2021 in Nashville, TN. He was surrounded by his loving family following a battle with metastatic melanoma. Robert lived the majority of his life in Manassas, VA, where he graduated from…
Read MoreGMVRS exceeded the day’s goal for units collected at the last American Red Cross blood drive held on March 18, 2021
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GMVRS hosted an Emergency Vehicle Drivers Training program over the weekend, which was our first of 2021! This multi-day course, taught by our own Assistant Chief, Adam Sampiller trained and certified some of our newer members, as well as personnel from other jurisdictions in the safe and correct operation of emergency vehicles. Job well done!
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Remembering Woody Merchant By President Pete Rockx: On January 27, 2021, another one of the Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad’s Charter Members, Woody T. Merchant Jr, joined many of his fellow founding members, whose names appear on the plaque pictured above. He was 87 when he passed. I met Woody…
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At the January Council Meeting, the City of Manassas proclaimed January 2021 as “National Blood Donor Month” and personally thanked GMVRS among other organizations in the city for blood drive efforts during the COVID-19 Pandemic person of March 15, 2020 – January 2nd, 2021.
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