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Welcome to the Official Website for the Iselin Volunteer Fire Company #1
The Iselin Volunteer Fire Company #1 is one of nine fire companies protecting Woodbridge Township, which is New Jersey's fifth largest municipality encompassing 27 square miles and a population of 105,000 people. Our district, covering approximately six square miles, is quite diverse and includes high rise office and hotel buildings (APA, Marriott Delta, Days Inn), the Northeast Corridor's MetroPark train station, commercial occupancies and shopping centers, highways (Garden State Parkway, US Route 1, US Route 9), a chemical research and development facility (BASF), and residential units including apartment buildings, senior citizen complexes, and single and multi-family homes.
The Iselin Volunteer Fire Company #1 is all volunteer. We respond from two fire stations, and our members provide fire fighting and rescue services to the residents, workers, and visitors of the Iselin and Menlo Park Terrace sections of Woodbridge Township 24 hours a day, seven days per week. We have a proud 97 year tradition of dedicated community service dating back to our founding by concerned citizens in 1922.
Please take a tour of our website to learn more about your fire company and your firefighters, and get updated on our latest activities and the community events being sponsored by the fire company.
Visit us again soon to get the latest news and updates on our activities and, as always, stop by and visit us at the firehouse.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail us at the link below.
info@iselinfire.com
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Change Your Clock Change Your Batteries
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, November 03
As Daylight Savings Time ends, the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and the Iselin Volunteer Fire Company #1 encourages you to mark the occasion as a time to test your home smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors and replace the batteries if more than one year old.
Every day in the United States, needless home fire deaths occur. Working smoke alarms significantly increase your chance of surviving ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Plane Crash in Colonia Section
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, October 29
Iselin District 9 responded to a plane crash at 40 Berkeley Avenue as part of the first alarm assignment. A Cessna 414 twin engine plane crashed into a house starting a fire which extended to the houses on either side. Engine 9-2's crew provided a water supply for an aerial waterway, stretched handlines into the exposure buildings, and assisted with overhaul.... (Full Story & Photos)
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Car Fire on Parkway
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, September 20
On September 19 at 2115 hours, Iselin District #9 was dispatched to the Garden State Parkway South at mile marker 131.5 for the reported vehicle fire. While enroute Deputy Chief Creighton confirmed a vehicle fire from a distance. DC Creighton arrived reporting a 2 car MVA with 1 vehicle's engine compartment fully involved. Engine 9-2 Firefighters A. Karlin and J. Joyce deployed a 100 foot bumper ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Smoke seen exiting the rear of the house.
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Structure Fire in Menlo Park Terrace
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, August 09
District 9 was dispatched for a report of smoke coming from the house at 36 Atlantic Street. Upon arrival, Chief McPartland reported a working fire and filled out the first alarm assignment. First arriving crews used a transitional attack to knock down the fire, then entered the house for extinguishment. Iselin 11 and Hopelawn assisted at the scene. ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Busy Week for Iselin Firefighters
Lieutenant TJ Karlin, August 02
The firefighters of Iselin 9 were very busy over the course of the last week answering four mutual aid assignments while handling several calls within the district.
At approximately 11:00 pm District #9 was dispatched on a 1st alarm assignment into Avenel for a confirmed junkyard fire secondary to a transformer explosion. Upon arrival the crew on Engine 9-2 was put right to work by conducting a search ... (Full Story & Photos)
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Avenel Junkyard Fire 7/21
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Car Fire on Route 9
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, May 02
District 9 was dispatched to a car fire on the ramp from Route 9 North to Green Street. Upon arrival, Deputy Chief Bennett reported an engine compartment fire. The crew from first due Engine 9-2 quickly extinguished the fire, and no injuries were reported.... (Full Story & Photos)
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Kitchen Fire Extinguished
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, April 25
Iselin 9 was dispatched to a smoke condition at Angeethi Restaurant at 849 Green Street. Upon arrival, Chief McPartland reported a fire and filled out the first alarm assignment. Crews from Engine 9-2 and 9-5 extinguished a kitchen fire while crews from Truck 9-2-4 and 11-2-1 went to the roof to check for extension and extinguish fire in the exhaust vent.... (Full Story & Photos)
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Iselin FD Honors Marine Staff Sergeant Christopher Slutman
Deputy Chief Brian Bennett, April 22
Iselin FD was proud to display the US flag from Truck 9-2-4 for the procession transporting the remains of U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. and FDNY Firefighter Christopher Slutman, killed in an Afghanistan roadside bombing, to a Bronx funeral home. Fire departments across New Jersey manned bridges over the NJ Turnpike to pay their respect and honor Sergeant Slutman's service to our country and the City of ... (Full Story & Photos)
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