The purposes of the SVRS are:

1. To provide the very best emergency medical care possible twenty-four hours a day.
2. To require E.M.T. for all members with the exclusion of Driver, Life and Honorary; thereby ensuring the highest caliber of medical care to our serving area twenty-four hours a day.
3. To provide, or make arrangements, to get each member the proper rescue, extrication, and patient handling training courses to comply with the state E.M.S. and S.V.R.S. guidelines.
4. To respond when called upon to the scenes of all life threatening emergencies and stand-bys at public events when our services might be needed. Also to assist any other rescue squad, law enforcement, or any emergency agencies not in the Squad’s serving area when called upon for our assistance, but in no means leaving the serving area of the S.V.R.S. unprotected. These services shall be on a twenty-four hour, seven days a week, year round protection at no charge from the Squad.
5. To teach methods of safety and basic life support to the community.