Editing Silver Creek, New York (section)

== {{anchor|Medical/Law Enforcement/Fire/EMS of the Silver Creek Region}}Health care and law enforcement ==
Silver Creek is served by Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk, NY.

Trauma cases are treated at the Erie County Medical Center in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] and [[UPMC Hamot]] in [[Erie, Pennsylvania]]. In August 2009 a flash flood affected Silver Creek, [[Sunset Bay, New York|Sunset Bay]] and [[Gowanda, New York|Gowanda]]. As a result of the flood, the [[New York State Department of Health]] closed Tri-County Memorial Hospital.  The Village of Silver Creek dissolved the Police Department and contracted with the [[Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office (New York)|Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office]] for patrols along with assistance from the [[New York State Police]] when needed.

The village has a volunteer fire department with 50–60 active volunteers and junior firefighters, operating in tandem with the Silver Creek Emergency Squad. They are trained by the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control and the New York State Department of Health's Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. On August 9, 2009, the emergency-squad building, the village fire hall and its vehicles sustained extensive damage in a flash flood; the public works department on North Main Street was destroyed (it has since moved to a new building in the former Bentges distributing plant on Routes 5 and 20 in the Town of Hanover. Several homes along Walnut Creek were badly damaged or destroyed, and the Silver Village Trailer Park was leveled by flooding from Silver Creek.<ref>[http://www.newsday.com/2-die-as-thousands-lose-power-in-storms-flooding-1.1359156 Carolyn Thompson, "2 die as thousands lose power in storms, flooding". ''Newsday'', August 10, 2009] Retrieved October 3, 2011.</ref> Some village streets were badly damaged or washed away by the flood waters. A [[funeral home]], church and school were also badly damaged.

Both Mercy Flight, a nonprofit medivac service based in Buffalo and LifeStar, a medivac service affiliated with UPMC Hamot in Erie, serve the Silver Creek area.