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In late 1980, we moved into our new Headquarters Building at 901 South Elm Street in southern High Point. We held an Open House and Building Dedication Ceremony on February 15, 1981.
The new facility was designated as "Base-7", using the Guilford County EMS numbering scheme.
A 16-page brochure was prepared for the event, which included a great deal of detailed information about the formation and history of the High Point Rescue Squad, which was renamed Piedmont Triad Ambulance & Rescue, Inc. in 1998.
Click the links below to view the 16-page Open House brochure.
PTAR Base-7 At 901 South Elm Street, High Point, N.C.
Over the years PTAR continued to grow, the number of our volunteers and employees continued to increase, and our service area continued to expand. As a result, we began to outgrow a single Base Station, and saw the need to add additional Base Stations.
In (month / year) we began construction on a 2nd Base Station at 600 Huffine Mill Road in northeast Greensboro. The construction was complete, and our crews starting operating from Base-10 in (month/year).
PTAR Base-10 At 600 Huffine Mill Road, Greensboro, N.C.
Our growth continued with our 3rd Base Station being built at 300 Concord Street in southwest Greensboro. That construction began on Base-6 in (month/year) and was finished in (month/year). Base-6 was built in a partnership with Guilford County EMS, with both PTAR and GCEMS crews and vehicles stationed together there.
PTAR Base-6 At 300 Concord Street, Greensboro, N.C.
In March 2006, construction was started on our 4th Base Station, which is located at 2011 Sandy Ridge Road in Colfax, adjacent to the River Landing Retirement Community, and in a rapidly growing area of Guilford County which had become known as "The Heart of the Triad".
That facility, known as Base-9, began operations in April 2007, and we held an Open House & Building Dedication Ceremony on August 19, 2007 – which marked our 36th year of operation.
PTAR Base-9 At 2011 Sandy Ridge Road, Colfax, N.C.
After 36 years of operation, and 28 years at our Base-7 location at 901 South Elm Street in southern High Point, we saw the need to expand our office space, which had become very cramped.
About that same time, a nearby office building – known as the Causey Law Office Building – was placed on the market for sale. We purchased that 2-story building, which is located at 1422 South Main Street in High Point, North Carolina – just a few blocks from our Base-7 location.
In May 2008, we relocated our offices, Billing Department, and Dispatch Operations to the new PTAR Administrative Office Building.
Our fleet of ambulances continued to be based at the old Base-7 location.
The move gave both our office staff and ambulance crews more room to operate, and provided much needed storage space for equipment and supplies at both locations.
Chief Paula Lineberry At The PTAR Administrative Office Building
1422 South Main Street, High Point, N.C.
May 2008
At the same time we were moving into our new Administrative Office Building, plans were underway to construct a Base Station in Asheboro, North Carolina on property that we purchased in December 2007.
Construction of our 5th Base Station, which would become known as "Base-11" began on August 17, 2009.
The new 3-bay building was placed into service during an Open House & Dedication Ceremony on August 15, 2010.
PTAR Base-11 At 108 East Balfour Avenue, Asheboro, N.C.
August 15, 2010
The story of Base-11 actually began way back in 1971, when we first received our Charter. Back then, we answered calls in the Randolph County area as requested on a "mutual-aid" basis, running out of our Base-7 location in downtown High Point.
A couple of our employees – EMT-I Jane Wooters and EMT-I Michael Allred – were very instrumental in PTAR starting to provide service in Randolph County on a regular "as needed" basis in early 1992.
Their normal work assignment with PTAR was in the Greensboro area. They saw a need, however, for someone to help out with non-emergency convalescent calls, and scheduled patient transport calls, in the Randolph County area so that Randolph County EMS Paramedic ambulances could remain available to answer more emergency calls.
So, when they reported to work each morning, and picked up an ambulance at Base-7 in High Point, they would telephone the Randolph County EMS Dispatchers to see if they had any scheduled transport calls which they could handle. If so, they would catch some of those calls before traveling to Greensboro for the rest of the day.
Their continued efforts – and the ever increasing call volume – later resulted in a PTAR ambulance being placed in service in Asheboro on
a daily "prime-time" basis on January 2, 1996 . Between calls, Jane and Michael would share somewhat cramped quarters with Paramedics at the Randolph County EMS Station in southern Asheboro.
Then, in 2008, PTAR expanded to having that same ambulance stationed in Asheboro 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, 365-days-a-year. That also resulted in PTAR hiring several additional EMTs to cover the shifts.
Due to the cramped quarters at the Randolph County EMS Station, PTAR personnel often stayed at the home of a PTAR EMT who lived in Asheboro, including parking an ambulance in his driveway and eating and sleeping at his house between calls. Because of that, and as the call volume continued to increase, we saw the need to build a PTAR Base Station in northern Asheboro.
During our Base-11 Open House & Dedication Ceremony on August 15, 2010, Jane and Michael were given some awards that recognized their 22 years of service to PTAR, and their efforts over the prior 18 years which were instrumental in PTAR's continued growth in Randolph County, and which resulted in a new PTAR Base Station being built in Asheboro.
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