Timothy Mee of Brighton serves on the Saint Michael's College Fire & Rescue Squad

2012 Oct 22

Timothy Mee, son of Daniel and Karen Mee of Brighton, is a member of the Saint Michael's College Fire & Rescue Squad. Mee, a junior economics major, serves in the Rescue Unit. He graduated from Belmont Hill School before coming to Saint Michael's.

The Fire and Rescue Squad is an independent volunteer organization of Saint Michael's students. In addition to their academic and extracurricular responsibilities, they've taken on the challenging responsibility of serving the public by providing fire protection and emergency medical treatment, not only on campus but also throughout a broad area of Vermont's most populous county. With the dedication and support of Saint Michael's students, alumni, and staff volunteers, their service has continued 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, since 1969.

Saint Michael's Rescue responds to more than 2400 calls annually involving respiratory and cardiac emergencies, motor vehicle accidents and more. As Nationally- and Vermont-certified Emergency Medical Technicians, students provide the same responsible and professional care that you would expect from any ambulance service anywhere in the country. Saint Michael's Rescue is the service of choice for many in Vermont's Chittenden County.

The Fire Unit responds to an average of 600 emergency calls per year, including structure fires, car fires, car accidents, fire alarms and carbon monoxide alarms. As one of the first college-affiliated fire departments in New England, Saint Michael's Fire Department has been a model for colleges nationwide.

Equipment

The Robert E. Sutton Saint Michael's Fire and Rescue Station is located on Route 15 across from Saint Michael's south entrance, in the same building as Public Safety. The station houses two pumpers, a squad truck and two ambulances. It contains six apparatus bays as well as day room, sleeping, training, study, storage and office facilities.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review, 2013 as one of the nation's Best 377 Colleges, and included in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings.