Emergency Services

The Cowen Police Department is empowered to enforce the law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in the Town of Cowen. The Cowen Police Department is engaged in an array of activities, depending on the situation, but its predominant concern is the preservation of order. 

 

The fire department that is empowered to provide fire protection and first response services for the Town of Cowen is the Cowen VFD. The Cowen VFD also employs the services of other county VFDs to oversee the fire protection district that encompasses the Town of Cowen.

 

Webster Memorial EMS is a branch of emergency services dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency. The goal of the Webster Memorial EMS as it relates to Emergency Medical Services is to either provide treatment to those in need of urgent medical care, with the goal of satisfactorily treating the malady, or arranging for timely removal of the patient to the next point of definitive care.