Greater Pittston Regional Ambulance

02/11/2026

The Greater Pittston Regional Ambulance is still actively seeking motivated, compassionate professionals to join our team, including:

✅ Paramedics
✅ Advanced EMTs (AEMT)

We currently have full-time and part-time opportunities available.

Why join GPRA?
⭐ Competitive wages
⭐ Full-time benefits package including:
• Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Coverages available

If you’re looking to grow your career with a progressive EMS organization serving our communities with pride, we’d love to hear from you!

📩 Interested ? Send an email to apply@medic29.com today get more info on how to become part of the GPRA family!

02/07/2026

Chief Reid was interviewed for this story, sharing his experiences in helping out with the evacuation efforts at last week’s major fire at the Lehigh Valley Dickson City hospital. Be sure to check it out! GPRA was proud to assist and devote our resources to this incident.

Over 72 hours later, first responders are still reflecting on a mass casualty incident that resulted in the evacuation and relocation of nearly 80 patients at L

02/07/2026

Lots of progress was made this week at our new HQ in South Pittston! As you can see, the building is almost completely enclosed. You can also see our chosen color for the walls - blue - which will complement the red roof. Red and blue were chosen as the primary design colors so as to match the GPRA’s traditional red, white and blue livery.

02/07/2026

🚨🚨GPRA January 2026 call statistics🚨🚨

♦️ 783 total calls in the GPRA coverage area
♦️ 743 calls handled by GPRA units
♦️ Looking inside the numbers, we had 14 fewer calls than January 2025, but the same number of patients were transported to area hospitals (434)

Special salute to Capt. E. Thomas for providing these statistics. With unwavering commitment to duty, even though he is battling health challenges, he continues to help move our organization forward! These numbers are used by the GPRA in making staffing and deployment decisions.

02/05/2026

Please consider supporting West Pittston Fire Dept.!

It's that time of year again. Make your significant other smile and also support your local fire dept. ❤️❤️❤️

02/05/2026

If you’ve been following social or traditional media over the last few hours, certainly you’ve heard of the major emergency response late Wednesday evening in Lackawanna County. Just before 10pm a fire broke out at the Lehigh Valley Health Network Dickson City campus. Multiple GPRA units responded, under the command of Chief Reid, to assist with patient evacuation efforts. Chief Reid served as the staging / transport officer in the incident command system

As a regional provider, we recognize our responsibility to our area to devote our resources and assets to major emergency events. We’re happy to help other agencies when disaster strikes. Other GPRA units remained in service in our district during this emergency

Lastly, we commend Dickson City Fire Department , Pennsylvania Ambulance , Lackawanna County Emergency Services and all responding agencies for managing a very difficult situation

02/04/2026

The GPRA is proud to announce that, effectively immediately, LT. David Corby has been promoted to the position of Captain. Please join us in congratulating Dave on this well-earned promotion!

Dave has been a long time, dedicated and loyal member of the GPRA. His can-do cheerful personality uplifts everyone around him. We’re proud to have him on our team! Dave serves as the GPRA’s logistics coordinator - managing supplies, inventory, purchasing and related tasks

01/31/2026

Despite this week’s frigid temperatures, major progress continued at the new GPRA HQ. The building is almost completely enclosed and the garage doors will be installed soon!

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01/31/2026

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Attention residents of City of Pittston, Jenkins Township, Yatesville Borough, West Pittston, Avoca and Exeter Borough - your annual ambulance subscription packets are in the mail and will be hitting your mailboxes now! We’ve switched vendors so you’ll see a new fresh and clean look, and streamlined online payment options. You can also pay through the mail as you’ve been used to. Any issues shoot us a message and we’ll be happy to help. Keep in mind that this subscription program is an important part of our funding that helps us to keep our units on the road!

P.S. - residents of Wyoming, West Wyoming and Laflin can expect their subscription packets when they typically come out later this year. We’re on it!

Your membership to the Greater Pittston Regional Ambulance help us to provide life saving services to the community while helping you defray the costs of EMS services.

01/29/2026

We’re excited to share some additional specification drawings for our newest, in-production ambulance unit.

These drawings show the front and rear of the unit, and the patient module “street side” and “curbside” views.

This is the pilot unit for what we anticipate to be a multiple unit order through VCI Emergency Vehicles and Horton Emergency Vehicles. The GPRA is a long time Horton and VCI customer, as we found this product to be the most durable and reliable for our heavy duty cycle.

01/29/2026

The Board of Directors of the GPRA, together with our CEO, Mr. Alfonso Gristina, are pleased to announce the appointment of EMT-P Ryan Reid to the position of Chief of Operations (COO). Ryan has been with the GPRA in a number of capacities over the years, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in EMS operations and management.

Ryan now has the helm of all field operations of the GPRA. He can be reached at RReid@medic29.com or 570-654-1202 Ext. 3. Ryan will be reaching out and meeting all of our community leaders, friends and stakeholders in the coming weeks. In the meantime, join us in wishing Ryan all the best in this important role!

Finally, we thank former Chief Szafran for his years of service to the GPRA and wish him luck and success in his future endeavors.