First response for medical emergencies in many rural Montana communities are handled by volunteer QRUs (Quick Response Units), Volunteer EMTs and ambulance services.
Many of these organizations receive little or no support from local governments, depending instead on donations and community spaghetti fundraisers to purchase needed equipment and supplies.
Organizations like these often delay purchasing such needed items as high-visibility jackets, pagers, radios, tablets, ambulance upgrades, safety gear, medical packs, automatic external defibrillators (AED), CPR training equipment, turnout gear, chest compression equipment, or other minor equipment.
In July 2021, the Town Pump Charitable Foundation awarded $550,000 in grants to 78 QRUs and volunteer EMT and ambulance services.
Absarokee - Absarokee Rural Fire District
Anaconda - Georgetown VFD/QRU
Baker - Fallon County
Belt - Belt Volunteer Ambulance Service
Big Timber - Sweet Grass County Search & Rescue
Broadus - Powder River First Responders, LTD
Boulder - Boulder Ambulance Service
Bozeman - Fort Ellis Rural Fire Corporation
Butte - I15-90 Search and Rescue
Charlo - Charlo-Moiese Volunteer Fire Department
Chester - Liberty County Ambulance
Chinook - Blaine County Ambulance 1
Choteau - Teton County EMS
Circle - Redwater Valley Ambulance Service
Clancy - Clancy Volunteer Fire Department
Columbia Falls - Columbia Falls Firefighters, Inc.
Columbia Falls - Badrock Fire & QRU
Columbus - Columbus Rural Fire District #3
Conrad - Pondera County Ambulance
Cooke City - Cooke City - Silvergate Emergency Services
Corvallis - Corvallis Quick Response Medical Unit
Culbertson - Roosevelt Medical Center EMS
Dayton - Chief Cliff Volunteer Fire/QRU
Denton - Denton Ambulance Service, Inc.
Dillon - Beaverhead County Search & Rescue
Ekalaka - Dahl Memorial Healthcare Ambulance
Ennis - Madison Valley Medical Center Foundation
Fort Benton - Memorial Ambulance of Fort Benton
Gardiner - Gateway Hose Company
Geraldine - Geraldine Community Ambulance
Glasgow - Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital Foundation
Glendive - City of Glendive Ambulance
Glendive - Dawson County Search and Rescue Team, Inc.
Grass Range - Grass Range QRU, Inc.
Grass Range - Cheadle Volunteer Fire Dept.
Hinsdale - Hinsdale Ambulance Service
Hot Springs - Town of Hot Springs
Jefferson City - Jefferson City VFD
Joliet - Joliet Emergency Services
Kalispell - West Valley Rural Fire District
Kalispell - Smith Valley Fire District
Lakeside - Lakeside QRU, Inc.
Laurel - Laurel EMS
Lavina - Golden Valley County Ambulance
Libby - Libby Volunteer Ambulance Service, Inc.
Libby - Fisher River Valley Fire Service Area
Libby - Lincoln County Sheriff Department
Lincoln - Lincoln Volunteer Ambulance Service
Miles City - Custer County Firefighters Association
Missoula - Missoula County Search and Rescue
Montana City - Montana City VFD
Opheim - North Valley EMS, Inc.
Park City - Park City Ambulance
Polaris - Grasshopper Valley Volunteer Fire Company
Poplar - Northeast Montana Health Services
Rexford - West Kootenai Fire Protection Company
Richey - Town of Richey Volunteer Ambulance Service
Rudyard - Hill County Ambulance
Scobey - Daniels County Emergency Services
Seeley Lake - Seeley Lake Rural Fire District
Shepherd - Shepherd VFD/QRU
Sheridan - Ruby Valley EMS
Sidney - Richland County Ambulance Service
Stanford - Judith Basin County Ambulance
Stevensville - Stevensville Rural Fire District
Superior - Superior VFD
Superior - Superior Area Ambulance Service
Thompson Falls - Thompson Falls Ambulance
Three Forks - Three Forks Ambulance
Townsend - American Legion Post #42
Troy - City of Troy
Victor - Victor Volunteer Rural Fire District
Whitefish - City of Whitefish Fire Department
Whitehall - Jefferson Valley EMS & Rescue
Winifred - Winifred Ambulance
Winnett - Winnett Volunteer Fire Department
Wise River - Wise River Volunteer Fire Company
Wolf Point - Northeast Montana Health Services
PO Box 6000,
Butte, MT 59702
406-497-6700
charitablefoundation@townpump.com