"I think the single biggest thing were are going to enjoy coming out of this station is to be able to respond better for calls to this area," Stuart said. "We should be able to respond better to calls in this area. Route 1 has become a virtual parking lot on occasion, especially during the summer months, and it became very difficult getting out of our previous station because of traffic."

Sussex County has nine EMS stations covering the entire 936 square miles of the county, or one for every 104 square miles. In 2016, medics from the old station responded to more than 2,600 calls with an average response time of just over eight minutes.

Every day, paramedics are roving across Brunswick County, ready to respond to a call for help. Brian Watts, the county’s emergency services director, said 10 staffed ambulances are usually on the road. Seven operate 24 hours a day, while three ambulances operate during peak call times in the mornings and evenings. The county keeps six additional ambulances on hand as backups.

Though there are 10 stations around the county where ambulances can dock and shift changes can be made, Watts said the ambulances are hardly there. To cover a county the size of Brunswick County, they have to keep moving.

During the ride, the woman became agitated, Bigg said, and punched one of the two EMTs riding with her in the back of the ambulance. She then pepper-sprayed them both as well as the driver.

While the crew was blinded by the spray, she moved to the front and tried to drive the ambulance.

Firefighters reported one of the trucks on fire. The station had a fire engine, a brush truck and a dive truck parked in the station, fire Lt. Kyle Falkner said Sunday in a telephone interview.

The brush truck was used to extinguish the fire, Falkner said.

For many years it just sat outside the fire department. They chose to save the money they would receive to fight a fire in order to get enough funds to restore the pumper back to its original state.

It's taken 19 months and $250,000, but soon their No. 2 steam fire engine will be back in Dawson City. It was among the first vehicles ever used by the fire department.