Captain Cecil Nunley shows part of the rescue equipment used to help people when they are in a vehicle accident.
HOW TO HELPTo find out how to help, call the Sequatchie County Rescue Squad at 423-949-2207 or Rescue Squad Capt. Cecil Nunley at 423-488-5068.
When most people encounter their local rescue squad, it’s at a time of extreme duress such as a traffic crash, disaster or a search for a missing person.
But who are those folks with the helping hand?
For years across the rural South, most rescue squads have been all-volunteer operations made up of local residents. These days, Sequatchie County Rescue Squad Capt. Cecil Nunley says, they’re better trained and have good equipment, but they’re still volunteer organizations in times when it’s often very hard to find people with the desire to help.
“We’ve got 20-plus members,” Nunley said of the organization started there in 1968. Two members of the current squad are charter members of that first squad, he said.