Alamance County Rescue Unit

10/18/2026

We are proud to announce that Alamance County Rescue Unit has been recredentialed as a designated North Carolina Emergency Management Wilderness Search and Rescue Team!

This designation allows our team to support search and rescue operations across North Carolina while strengthening our ability to serve right here in Alamance County. Our trained members, including our K9 team, assist in searches for missing or endangered individuals, including children, older adults, and individuals with disabilities, in wooded, remote, and difficult-to-access areas.

We are proud of our members’ dedication, training, and commitment to bringing loved ones home.

10/08/2026

Our hearts are with the Durham Fire Department as they mourn the loss of one of their firefighters and two injured firefighters. We extend our deepest condolences to their family, friends, and fellow firefighters. Rest in peace brother!

10/03/2026

**Training** This past week ACRU was busy with training on land and by “sea”! Our divers worked on ERDI skills and certification check offs and our members worked on high angle rescue pick offs and techniques with our friends and fellow responders with Elon Fire Department. These trainings build necessary skill sets and strengthen emergency response to those in need. 💪

09/27/2026

“Training Burn Rehab”

This past week ACRU provided rehab services to our friends & fellow responders with Haw River Fire Department, Mebane NC Fire Department & Faucette Township Vol. Fire Department. They put the work in, taking on the heat, to better prepare for themselves when time is of the essence on an emergency! Strong work! Rehab and rest during these trainings and emergencies are essential for long incidents and keeps all responders ready for top notch service! Great work all!!

09/14/2026

🏆🔥 WHAT A WEEKEND FOR ALAMANCE COUNTY RESCUE UNIT! 🔥🏆

ACRU was proud to attend the 70th Annual North Carolina Association of Rescue & EMS Convention & Rescue Competition—and our team came ready to compete! 💪🚑

After putting skill, training, teamwork, and determination to the test, ACRU brought home:

🥇 1ST PLACE — TOMMY McNEIL SWIFTWATER RESCUE COMPETITION 🌊

🥇 1ST PLACE — TECHNICAL RESCUE COMPETITION

🥇 1ST PLACE — RESCUE CHALLENGE
🥈 2ND PLACE — RESCUE CHALLENGE
🥉 3RD PLACE — RESCUE CHALLENGE

These accomplishments are about much more than trophies. They represent countless VOLUNTEER hours of training, dedication, teamwork, sacrifice, and the commitment to always be ready when our community needs us most.

From swiftwater to technical rescue, our members continue to demonstrate why training matters and teamwork saves lives.

Congratulations to every ACRU member who competed, supported our teams, trained alongside them, and represented Alamance County with pride!

Huge shout out to NC Association of Rescue and EMS, Inc. for putting these competitions on for departments and squads to showcase their skills and training! Also congrats to our friends and fellow responders who competed along side us! Fayetteville Fire Department & Fort Bragg Fire & Emergency Services! And finally a big shoutout to FTCC Fire, Rescue and Swift Water Training for having us and for a top notch staff and facility!

Outstanding Photos by Noticed by Nick Photography and Mick Stewart Photography

ALAMANCE COUNTY RESCUE UNIT
Many Hands. Many Minds. One Goal.
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09/04/2026

🔥🐷 IT’S BACK… AND IT SELLS OUT FAST! 🐷🔥

🚨 ALAMANCE COUNTY RESCUE’S ANNUAL BOSTON BUTT SALE IS HERE! 🚨

One of our MOST POPULAR FUNDRAISERS OF THE YEAR is back—and this year, we’re bringing in some serious BBQ firepower! 🔥

We are PROUD TO PARTNER WITH HURSEY’S BBQ to help us cook up some delicious, slow-smoked Boston Butts! 🤤🐖

Every butt you purchase helps support Alamance County Rescue and the volunteers who are there when our community needs us most. 🚑❤️

👉 DON’T WAIT! These sell out QUICKLY every year!

🎟️ ORDER YOURS TODAY!
🔗 ORDER HERE — Zeffy⁠

🔥 GOOD BBQ. GREAT CAUSE. LOCAL HEROES. 🔥

Thank you for continuing to support Alamance County Rescue and our mission to serve our community! 💚🖤

’sBBQ

08/14/2026

A little bit of our history from the early 70’s! Thanks for the tag Legeros Fire Line!

Morning rescue history. Random finds of the Alamance County Rescue Unit in the early 1970s, from Burlington and Greensboro newspapers.

Top left from the Burlington News Times, about the squad returning to full-time ambulance service yesterday, after having suspending operation for several weeks "during a period of indecision over funds."

Caption: The Alamance Rescue Unit returned to full ambulance service yesterday. Two full-time employees are manning the station, and volunteers provide additional service. Left to right are Lt. Jim Wright, Sgt. Jimmie Bell and Henry Moore, shown here with some of the unit's equipment which was used for seven calls yesterday.

Bottom from the Greensboro Daily News on October 31, 1971, about the squad's proposal that ambulance service in Alamance County be county-operated through their organization. Currently, it was contracted to a private firm owned by George Sidden. And the "ambulance issue flared up in the spring" when county commissioners extended the contract for another year.

Caption: Alamance Rescue Squad workers making a call in Mebane.

Top right from the Greensboro Daily News on January 10, 1973, at a car accident in Burlington and an injured youth being transported by the rescue unit to Alamance County Hospital.

Memo to self, add Alamance County to the list of ambulance and rescue service histories to research sometime.