The Salem Rescue Squad was organized on the 15th of November, 1932. Even though it was called the Salem Life Saving Crew when it was first established, the Salem Rescue Squad was patterned after the Roanoke Life Saving & First Aid Crew, organized in 1928. In our third building now and more than 80 years later, the Salem Rescue Squad continues its all volunteer tradition of giving the best pre-hospital health care to the citizens of Salem and surrounding Roanoke Valley.