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 Loy Eary came to Kansas in 1964 as a member of the
United States Air Force stationed at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita,
Kansas. He served 20 years in the
service, retiring in 1973 and then worked at McConnell until his retirement in
1994.
Loy became interested in EMS in 1981 when Butler
County EMS offered an ambulance to a group of people in Rose Hill if they
would become EMTs. Loy took the
class and became certified in 1982. The
ambulance that had been offered was not in good enough shape to repair so the
members of Loy’s class were issued jump kits and pagers and functioned as
first responders until a responding ambulance could arrive.
Loy functioned as the first Director of Butler County
EMS, Rose Hill Station, serving through 1986.
Their first ambulance was purchased by the City Council after Loy’s
group had asked for a loan to purchase one.
The money that the group had raised for a new ambulance was used to
build a garage to house the ambulance, a feat accomplished in three weeks at
no cost to any government entity.
Loy became an Instructor/Coordinator in 1982 and a
Kansas State Examiner in 1987. In
1990, Loy became an EMT-I.
In 1991, Loy started having some coronary problems and
decided to quit taking ambulance calls, but continued to educate and examine
until 1994.
In reviewing his EMS career, Loy said that even
though it was a lot of hard work, with commitment to training sessions,
seminars, workshops, test sites, taking calls and having fund raisers, he
remember a lot of fun times, plus a lot of rewards in seeing the progress that
was being made. Loy said, “If I
would change any thing, the only change I would make is to have been involved
much earlier”.
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