Our Story

Responsibility was here before the first call.

Founded by seven community members who believed emergency medical care should exist before someone needed it.

NAVAC station exterior

Founded in 1970

They did not wait for someone else to build it.

The founders of North Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps accepted responsibility for a need their community could not afford to ignore.

Their willingness to personally accept financial risk created the organization that continues serving North Syracuse today.

More than fifty years later, every generation of NAVAC inherits that responsibility. Our obligation is not simply to preserve what they built. It is to leave it stronger than we found it.

Founding Members

The people who made NAVAC possible.

John E. “Jack” Abulencia Sr.
Alfred Farnham
Douglas Goettel
Michael Grillo Jr.
Richard Jones
Walter Killius
George Needle
NAVAC ambulance in a rural setting

Today

One legacy. A future still being built.

NAVAC continues as a volunteer-supported, professionally driven EMS organization committed to clinical excellence, community service, and the next generation of providers.

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