Become a Volunteer with Sparta Ambulance Squad – No Experience Required! Training and mentorship provided.
Make a real difference in your hometown. Whether you want to respond to emergencies, support community events, or help behind the scenes, there is a place for you.
Why Join?
Are you looking to …
- Help your community?
- Find meaningful volunteer work?
- Learn new skills?
- Meet people locally?
- Give back after retirement?
- Spend more time now that your kids are grown?
Volunteering with Sparta Ambulance Squad checks all of those boxes while providing you with a meaningful, rewarding experience! Remember: no experience is required and we provide you the training and mentorship you need to be successful.
Your Neighbors Need You
For generations, community members have stepped forward to help their friends and neighbors through Sparta Ambulance Squad. Today, volunteers remain the backbone of our organization. While paid staff help ensure continuous coverage, the majority of our ambulance coverage each week is provided by dedicated volunteers, and the squad continues to be volunteer-led.
Whether responding to emergencies, driving ambulances, supporting community events, or helping behind the scenes, our volunteers play a vital role in keeping emergency medical services strong in Sparta.
By volunteering, you become part of a tradition of service that directly supports your friends, neighbors, and hometown.
Multiple ways to help
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) – Make a direct difference
The EMT role has the most direct impact on patient care and is our highest priority. You will commit to becoming a New Jersey State‑certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). You do not need to be certified to join — initial certification can be completed after you begin service. Training, including initial EMT certification, is funded through the New Jersey Department of Health Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund or by us.
Ambulance Driver – Support on the Road
Those who want to help on calls but prefer not to provide direct patient care can choose the Ambulance Driver role. Training covers emergency vehicle operation, CPR, safe lifting and moving techniques, equipment identification and retrieval, and patient transport procedures. This role is an excellent way to “kick the tires” and gain experience in emergency response while supporting our EMTs.
Associate Member – Volunteers beyond emergency response
Tremendous effort and significant time are required to keep any organization running—ours included. If frontline emergency response isn’t for you but you have talents in business administration, finance, publicity, IT, vehicle/grounds maintenance, or event planning, your skills are desperately needed. Join our team behind the scenes to help with operations, fundraising, community outreach, and logistics so our responders can focus on saving lives.
Cadet – Start your EMS journey at 16
Our cadet program is designed for young adults beginning at age 16 who want to explore volunteer EMS. Cadets are closely guided and mentored by experienced members, gaining hands‑on exposure to squad life, teamwork, emergency medical care, and public service. The program is structured to fit around school and other obligations so cadets can learn, contribute, and discover whether emergency response is right for them.
For more information on Volunteering
If you are interested in serving your community by joining the SAS team, please feel free to complete a membership application (see below). The SAS monthly general meeting is held on the third Wednesday of the month (except in August and December) starting at 7PM. Stop down to our headquarters located at 14 Sparta Avenue and speak to the officers and membership about what volunteering with SAS is all about.
Not ready to submit an application? Send us a message on our Contact Us page with your questions or to request an informal meeting, get a tour of our facility and equipment, and get your questions answered.
Apply for Membership here