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This month Company 1’s Dive Team along with teams from Lyndhurst, Oradell, Wallington and the Bergen County Sheriff officially formed the Bergen County Regional SCUBA Task Force. The task force will respond to calls for evidence recovery, search and rescue/recovery, ice rescue, and also boat operation. We are looking forward to working with our colleagues at these departments and would like to thank everyone for their time and effort that went into this.Click here for the press release from the Bergen County Sheriff

This January Company 1 responded to 33 calls for service. This month there were 3 dispatched structure fires, 2 elevator rescues, 3 extrications, 13 fire alarms, 6 gas leaks, 1 oil spill, 1 oven fire, 1 stand-by, 2 working fires, and 1 vehicle fire. As always, the volunteer members of Company 1 are ready to respond 24 hours a day 7 days week.

In 1968 Mahwah FD received a donation of the latest rescue technology from the NW Bergen Board of Realtors. Accepting the Porta Power Unit from the Officers of the Board of Realtors (Jack Levine and Frank Dator) are Assistant Chief Don Vilmar and FF’s Dave Meester and John Deming.

This year Company 1 responded to 304 calls for service. These calls were 7 boiler issues, 5 brush fires, 4 burning smells, 1 chimney fire, 15 carbon monoxide alarms, 17 dispatched structure fires, 2 dryer fires, 1 dumpster fire, 12 EMS assists, 3 electrical issues, 9 elevator rescues, 15 extrications, 146 fire alarms, 2 fuel spills, 23 gas leaks, 2 grill fires, 1 HAZMAT call, 3 mutual aid requests for a fire, 1 mutual aid request for the fan boat, 1 mutual aid request for the dive team, 1 mutual aid request for a fast team, 3 oven fires, 1 rubbish fire, 9 smoke conditions, 5 calls for sparking wires, 6 smells of smoke, 2 stand-by’s, 1 technical rescue, 1 wash-down, 1 water rescue, 2 working fires, and 2 vehicle fires.   As always, the volunteer members of Company 1 are ready to respond 24 hours a day 7 days week.