Explore a history in pictures of Montclair Ambulance Unit (MAU) as they celebrate a 70-year history. In partnership, the Montclair History Center and MAU digitized MAU’s archival and artifact collection now available online here.

Founded in 1953, Montclair Ambulance Unit has provided 70 years of uninterrupted emergency medical service to the people of Montclair. While it began as an all-volunteer initiative, MAU is now staffed by 45 paid, professional emergency medical technicians (EMTs), operates four ambulances, and its crews are on duty around the clock at their current home in the historic, former Walnut Street fire house. When MAU was founded in 1953, only men were eligible to work on the ambulances! In the 1960s, when MAU faced staffing challenges, the "lady riders" stepped up to ensure that an ambulance got out the door when it was needed. Fast forward 70 years MAU is now staffed by more than half of whom identify as female or people of color.

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This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program  do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.