Flemington-Raritan First Aid and Rescue Squad

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www.frfars.org We were established in 1952, following in the traditions set forth by the Flemington American Legion Ambulance and Civil Defense Corps.

The Flemington-Raritan First Aid and Rescue Squad is a combination volunteer and career Emergency Medical and Rescue Services provider serving Flemington Borough, Raritan Township, and parts of Readington and Delaware Townships. Since then we have grown to an organization with over 80 members and a wide variety of specialized vehicles and equipment. We answered 3153 calls for service in 2019. We continue to work hard to grow and meet the needs of our diverse and ever changing community. Our goal is to provide the most rapid and most professional services possible for our community. We provide 24 hour a day, 365 days a year coverage with crews in our station. What this means is that when you call for our services, we are ready to respond immediately. We have made this commitment to provide quicker service for you, our residents and businesses. This coverage is provided by our dedicated volunteers and career employees. Without their commitment, this level of service would not be possible. We have an average on scene response time of under 8 minutes to emergency calls. This time is calculated from the moment we are dispatched to your emergency to the time all equipment needed arrives on the scene to assist. With over 50 square miles of coverage area, we are proud of these accomplishments. The Squad provides emergency ambulance services and technical rescue services. Some of our services Include:

* Emergency Medical Services / 9-1-1 Ambulance Services.
* Special Event Stand-By's: If you are holding a sporting event or a large gathering and would like an ambulance to be on hand in the event of an emergency, give us a call.
* Community Education: We will send our personnel and units to schools and daycare centers as well as any other community groups to display our equipment and give some basic safety tips.
* Station Tours: Interested in seeing our facilities? Stop by our headquarters at 26 Route 12, next to Carvers Auto Parts) in Flemington. We would be happy to give you a tour of our facilities and equipment. Some of the specialized technical rescue services we provide include:

* Vehicle and Machinery Extrication: Assisting victims who are trapped in vehicles following a crash, or pinned in industrial or agricultural machinery, using specialized tools to remove them safely and quickly while minimizing potential for further injury
* Rope Rescue: Assisting injured persons that are otherwise inaccessible by conventional means such as people injured in ravines, on water towers, or other similar situations
* Confined Space Rescue: Assisting victims who have become injured/incapacitated in areas that are difficult to access such as silos, storage tanks, underground pipes and other similar situations
* Water Rescue: Assisting victims stranded in floods and fast moving water, or who have fallen through the ice in winter months.
* Building Collapse Rescue: Assisting persons who have become trapped in collapsed structures or vehicles that have crashed into buildings
* Trench Rescue: Assisting victims who are buried in collapsed trenches and excavations
* Fire Support: Assisting our local fire departments with fire suppression operations and R.I.T. capabilities

Our squad provides emergency medical services with five basic life support ambulances, and rescue services with two heavy rescue trucks, a marine rescue vehicle, a collapse rescue trailer and two boats. We are always looking for volunteers. Our members are the heart of our operation. It is through many hours of hard work and dedication provided by these people that you are able to receive a quick response with well trained members equipped with the latest technology available. We are a non-profit organization and rely on your donations to supplement our operating budget. Please don't forget us when you receive a donation request in the mail. Anyone interested in becoming a member may call (201) 822-9399 or (908) 782-6103. We have several classes of membership to meet your availability. Training for members is provided free of charge.

12/08/2025

The Rescue Squad participated in the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Holiday Parade last night in Flemington Borough while also providing EMS stand-by coverage for the parade. About twenty members participated in either the parade or the stand-by.

Wishing everyone a safe, happy and healthy holiday season!

12/03/2025

This afternoon the Rescue Squad responded to Everitts Road in Raritan Township for an unconscious subject due to a traumatic fall. The patient was cared for at the scene by Squad EMTs and HMC paramedics before being turned over to the flight crew of NJSP NorthSTAR medevac. The patient was then airlifted to Capital Health in Trenton for treatment. Raritan Township Fire Company secured the landing zone. BLS Ambulances 4952 and 4956 responded.

12/03/2025

NOVEMBER STATISTICS

For the month of November, the Rescue Squad responded to 304 emergency calls, compared to 287 last November (a 5.9% increase). For the year as of the end of November, the Squad has responded to 3317 emergency calls compared to 3188 during the same period during 2024. The call volume this year is up a little over 4% compared to the same period last year.

The calls by municipality for November were as follows:
Flemington Borough - 62
Raritan Township - 212
Readington Township - 3
Delaware Township - 12
East Amwell Township - 6
Kingwood Township - 1
City of Lambertville - 4
Clinton Township - 1
Franklin Township - 1
Out of County - 2

During November, the Rescue Squad's volunteer EMT's provided 1032 hours of duty time, with the Squad's career staff providing an additional 1746 hours of duty time to maintain our in-house staffed ambulances. There is always one staffed ambulance on duty at all times, with two and sometimes three staffed during peak call volume times. Our average response time remains among the fastest in the county and state, at 7:40 minutes average from dispatch to arriving on scene. (Hunterdon County average is 13 minutes / State average is 15 minutes per NJ DOH EMS). This average includes second, third and "scramble crew" calls.

During the month of November, the Rescue Squad attended the Raritan Township Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony and provided EMS stand-by for the CEA / Johanna Foods Turkey Trot 5k on Thanksgiving Day. Over twenty members participated in our annual Thanksgiving Eve work detail, completing various maintenance tasks on Squad equipment and vehicles while providing additional coverage on a very busy day (23 calls in a 24 hour period). The Rescue Squad hosted our annual Rescue Truck Pull in conjunction with HealthQuest. Our members participated in two EMS drills and two Rescue drills during the month, including participation in the Hunterdon County Urban Search and Rescue quarterly full-scale exercise for over eight hours on November 22nd. Our members also attended various courses during the month, including Structural Collapse Shoring Review, Tactical Emergency Casualty Care, and various seminars at the National EMS Conference held in Atlantic City.

12/01/2025

The Rescue Squad attended the Raritan Township Holiday Lights Celebration last evening at the Raritan Township Municipal Building on Municipal Drive last night.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our team was up bright and early this morning to provide EMS coverage for the annual CEA/Johanna Foods Turkey Trot. With 12 EMTs, four BLS ambulances, and our Medical Support Unit (MSU) on duty, we ensured runners and spectators had a safe and enjoyable race.

But we didn’t just stand by—we joined in! In what’s quickly becoming a beloved tradition, six additional Squad members laced up and ran the 5k alongside the community: FF/EMT Coral Sellers, EMT Miles Alderman (who organized our team), EMT Niko Racioppi, EMT Jimmy Lundari, EMT Emma Wilson, and EMS Lieutenant (FF/EMT) Gavin Stager.

As always, our squad remains in service throughout the holiday weekend, ready to respond to 9-1-1 calls and keep our community safe.

From all of us at the Rescue Squad, we wish our friends, neighbors, and community members a safe, joyful, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Did you spot our crew out on the course? Let us know or share photos in the comments.

11/27/2025

With twenty one emergency calls and counting for the day, our Thanksgiving Eve stand-by and work detail is in full swing. Members are addressing equipment cleaning and tool maintenance on Heavy Rescue 495, while other members detail a couple of the ambulances. It's the preparation and attention to detail that helps at the "big one".

Having personnel at the station to staff additional units helps us be ready for what is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year. Plus many hands makes light work...

Thanks to EMT Karen Hoffman for preparing dinner for everyone this evening.

Please drive carefully tonight, and don't drink and drive. Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

11/25/2025

Eight members of the Rescue Squad spent Saturday training in the mud as part of the Hunterdon County USAR Task Force.

THE TRAINING NEVER ENDS...

11/23/2025

This week and weekend, seven FRFARS members joined over 1,000 EMS professionals at The National Conference on EMS in Atlantic City, NJ. The event brought together EMS professionals, including EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physicians, educators, and colleagues from fire, law enforcement, and emergency management to share knowledge and strengthen skills.

Members attended numerous classes and lectures with both weekday and weekend sessions available. A wide variety of topics were available, including patient care, education, leadership, EMT wellness, emergency management, and others. Of note was a panel discussion between the Directors of Emergency Medical Services for several states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New Hampshire) on current challenges and changes in EMS today.

The National Conference on EMS is one of two major training trips our squad participated in this year, alongside the Virginia Rescue Challenge—all in addition to regular drills, CEU classes, NAEMT courses, access to the Hunterdon County Emergency Services Training Center, and more. At FRFARS, we pride ourselves on providing the best continuing education and training opportunities for our team.

Want to be part of a team that never stops learning, growing, and training? Join us at www.frfars.org/join.

11/16/2025

Yesterday, six members of the Rescue Squad completed the Sloped Floor Shores and Collapse Rescue Shoring Review at the Hunterdon County Emergency Services Training Center.

This twelve hour course builds on the collapse rescue shoring skills learned previously in the thirty-two hour Collapse Rescue Operations course. Members constructed two post spot shores, two post vertical shores, and a laced post shore, before moving on to Type II and Type III sloped floor shores. The sloped floor shores are used in cases where portions of a building are resting at an angle too steep to effectively shore with box cribbing or vertical shores.

EMT Dave Somers, FF/EMT Brian Dettra, FF/EMT James Breuer, FF/EMT Brett Colavito, FF/EMT Melissa Kinoian and FF/EMT Zach Waseleski all completed the training. Rescue Capt Gary Breuer and FF Bob Schilp helped present the class as HCESTC instructors.

THE TRAINING NEVER ENDS...

11/12/2025

Each month, the Squad hosts a variety of drills and trainings, focused on topics such as EMS, Rescue, or skills for our newer members working towards becoming one of two qualified EMTs on an ambulance. This month's drill for newer members went "back to basics" and focused on cardiac arrest management.

Participants were responsible for performing effective chest compressions, managing an airway with appropriate adjuncts, clearing the airway with mechanical suction or other tools as needed, and ventilating appropriately. For the purposes of this training, manual CPR was performed without the aid of mechanical chest compression devices.

Each iteration was allowed to continue for 30 minutes, simulating the amount of time these skills may be used in the field.

11/11/2025

Earlier this fall, several Squad members completed the NAEMT Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course, hosted by Hunterdon Medical Center and taught by HMC ALS providers. The TECC curriculum is currently being updated, with the 3rd Edition (TECC‑3) preparing for global release. The HMC offering was the very first pilot to use this new edition, with NAEMT representatives on hand to observe. This distinction places our members among the first EMTs worldwide to be trained under TECC‑3.

TECC prepares EMTs and paramedics to provide care in civilian tactical environments, such as terrorism, active shooter, or mass casualty situations. Students learn how to operate effectively in hot (direct threat), warm (indirect threat), and cold (evacuation) zones. While we hope to never see these types of events in our community, preparedness is nevertheless valuable.

Across two intensive days, participants practiced a wide range of critical skills, including hemorrhage control, rapid tourniquet application, MARCH assessments, treatment strategies for injured responders in threat settings, pediatric considerations, and patient movement techniques.

Students also learned about the uses and benefits of several advanced life support (ALS) interventions performed by hospital-affiliated paramedics in the field, such as needle decompression, advanced airway management, surgical airway procedures, and IV/IO access. While EMTs do not perform these interventions, understanding their purpose and physiology allows for more informed decision-making in tactical situations.

The training culminated in a full-scale scenario simulating an EMS and law enforcement response to an active shooter and mass‑casualty incident.

Members participating in the training included EMT Chris Schrenk, EMT Collin Merz, EMT Tyler Sarich, EMT Miles Alderman, EMT Emma Hill, and EMS Captain Andrew Glowacki.

Thank you to the instructional team at Hunterdon Health for excellent training and education.

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Flemington, NJ
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