When the tones in Madison go off between the hours of 6:00 PM and 5:00 AM, a crew from the Madison County Rescue Squad is on the way to the truck and soon to be on the way to the scene of the call. When units arrive on scene, squad members will locate the patient and begin either Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Life Support (ALS) emergency procedures. Once both EMT's and ALS members have decided that the patient has been stabilized, the crew will move the patient to the truck and begin heading to one of MCRS's designated hospitals, either Culpeper Regional Hospital (CRH) in Culpeper, VA, Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH) in Charlottesville, VA or to the University of Virginia Medical Center (UVA) in Charlottesville as well. After arriving at a hospital, the crew will transfer all care to the doctors and nurses at the hospital and the crew will return to the station. In the event of extremely life threatening emergencies, a MEDEVAC helicopter may be requested to respond to the closest available landing zone. Pegasus helicopter from UVA or AirCare 5 from the Shenandoah Valley are MCRS's closest designated MEDEVAC helicopters.

The Madison County Rescue Squad is a registered agency by the Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Office of Emergency Services. MCRS also is a member of the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads. We operate under the direction of our Operational Medical Director, Dr. Scott Syverud, MD of the University of Virginia Emergency Medicine Department.

The Madison County Rescue Squad is proud to offer Madison County's citizens with exemplary, professional and courteous emergency care in a quick and timely manner.

MCRS covers the entire county of Madison, which is a grand total of 322 square miles. The squad also has mutual aide agreements with Orange, Greene, Culpeper and other surrounding counties.

MCRS has monthly business meetings at our building located at 1473 North Main Street in the town of Madison. The meetings begin at 1930 hours (7:30 P.M.) every second Monday of every month. BLS providers have meetings on every third Wednesday of the month beginning at 1900 hours (7:00 P.M). ALS providers have a meeting on the first Thursday of every month also at 1900 hours.

Please call us at anytime at the telephone number 540-948-5353. If you have an emergency, please dial 9-1-1 anywhere in the county of Madison to put in contact with a trained Emergency Dispatcher that handles all emergency communications for Madison. Members are typically in and out of the building during the day and at the building after 6 PM to answer your calls. You may also email the squad at the email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it