Happy Memorial Weekend
From our family to yours we wish everyone a happy and safe Memorial Weekend
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Multi-department Dive Drill
This Sunday members from Rescue 1’s dive team along with divers from Ringwood Underwater Search and Recovery, Oradell FD, Lyndhurst FD and Parsippany Rescue & Recovery worked on their diving and searching skills at the Monksville Reservoir. The divers also worked to recover a simulated victim from the bottom of the lake. As the below video shows, this is a difficult and dangerous task that unfortunately each team must be prepared for.
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April 2018 Calls for service
This April Company 1 responded to 25 calls for service. This month there was 1 mutual aid request for the dive team, 2 elevator rescues, 2 ems assists, 10 fire alarms, 1 vehicle fire, 6 gas leaks, 1 burning electrical smell, 1 oven fire, and 1 dispatched structure fire. As always, the volunteer members of Company 1 are ready to respond 24 hours a day 7 days week.
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Route 287 Motor Vehicle Accident
At around 2:30 this morning Rescue 1 along with Fire Companies 2, 4, EMS North, and the Franklin Lakes Fire Dept. responded to Route 287 South for a motor vehicle accident and vehicle fire. After the fire was extinguished the accident scene was turned over to the New Jersey State Police.
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Bob Iannacone
It is with our deepest regret that we announce the passing of former Rescue Captain Bob Iannacone. Bob joined Company 1 in 1971 and was an active member until 1992. We will keep him and his family in our thoughts and prayers.
March 2018 Calls for service
This March Company 1 responded to 34 calls for service. This month there was 1 chimney fire, 3 CO alarms, 4 DPW assists, 1 EMS assist, 1 elevator rescue, 17 fire alarms, 2 gas leaks, 1 mutual aid request for a fire, 1 oven fire, 1 stand-by, and 2 water rescues. As always, the volunteer members of Company 1 are ready to respond 24 hours a day 7 days week.
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Mahwah Fire Department History: Fire Comm
FIRE COMM circa 1961…..Caption: Wallace W. Finch, assistant chief of the Mahwah Fire Department points to where the site of a fire could be in the township on the new fire location board now in operation at the firehouse on Miller Road. Watching the assistant chief check out the new system are Donald Vilmar, captain of Fire Company No. 1, left, and Norman C. Rew, a member of the Glen Rock Fire Department. Another identical location board has been installed by Finch and Rew, who built the one in Glen Rock, at the firehouse on Island Road in the township. OCT 18 1961
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