Freehold Emergency Medical Services

12/25/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas from Freehold EMS 🚑❤️

This Christmas, we’re proud to serve our community with dedication, compassion, and readiness—day and night, holiday or not. Thank you to our volunteers, employees, partners, and residents for your continued support throughout the year.

From our EMS family to yours, we wish you a safe, healthy, and joyful Christmas. 🎁✨

12/23/2025

***COMMUNITY OUTREACH***

This past weekend was a BUSY one for your Freehold EMS members!

Thursday, members attended the grand opening of Freehold Township’s newest Wawa located at W. Main Street and Siloam Road.

Saturday, we proudly participated in the annual Santa Run event in Freehold Township with our friends at Freehold Township Ind. Fire Company #1 & East Freehold Fire Company. We had a blast helping bring Santa around to our wonderful community! Simultaneously on duty personnel, off duty members and a hungry community attended a Freehold EMS fundraiser graciously hosted by Tatchens for the second time this year. Mike, the owner of Tatchens, has been a unbelievable supporter of Freehold EMS and we deeply appreciate all of his efforts. Tatchens is located in 3333 US 9 in Chadwick Square, go check him out!

Sunday, members geared up for night 2 of the Santa Run with our friends with the Freehold Fire Department (Station 15) and had a blast helping bring Santa to our residents in Freehold Borough.

Bringing Santa through the borough and township has typically been a fire department tradition so this was the first year Freehold EMS participated in this wonderful community event. We sincerely thank our three Freehold fire companies for allowing us to participate in the fun this year and for your generous hospitality. We are looking forward to participating in this event again together!

Finally, today Freehold EMS members, our friends with the Centra State Emergency Department, Atlantic Mobile Health, Tom’s River Fire Department, Tom’s River PD, and PBA teamed up to share some holiday joy for a very special CSMC ER nurse who has been courageously battling cancer for the last year and her children.

In addition to all of these activities (Thursday-Monday) Freehold EMS has answered over 100 calls for service not only in our community, but have also provided mutual aid to surrounding communities.

Freehold Township
Borough of Freehold

12/21/2025

🕎 Last Night of Hanukkah | Freehold EMS 🕯️

As Hanukkah comes to a close, we’re grateful to reflect on everything we were proud to take part in throughout the week:

• Sunday — Units 1561 & Captain 1553
📍 Freehold Raceway Mall Candle Lighting

• Monday — Units 1561 & Captain 1553
📍 Centrastate Medical Center & Freehold Township Municipal Building Celebrations

• Tuesday — Units 1557, 1555 & Captain 1553
📍 Freehold Borough Hall Celebration
📍 Freehold Raceway Mall Hanukkah Parade & Candle Lighting

Thank you to everyone who welcomed us, supported us, and celebrated with us.
From our EMS family to yours — Happy Hanukkah! 💙🚑✨

12/19/2025

🚑 Support Freehold EMS — Lunch for a Cause! 🍽️

This Saturday, December 20th, from 11:00 AM–3:00 PM, join us for our annual fundraiser at Tatchen’s (📍 3333 Route 9 North, Chadwick Square Plaza).

👉 100% of all lunch sales are donated back to Freehold EMS
Enjoy delicious sandwiches on homemade bread/rolls with home-cooked meats, plus salads and homemade soups.

Bring your friends and family, spread the word, and come hungry — every bite supports your local EMS! 💙🚑

12/15/2025

Wishing a happy and safe Hanukkah to all who celebrate. 🕎
May the Festival of Lights bring peace, warmth, and hope to you and your loved ones.

From all of us at Freehold EMS—Chag Sameach!

12/12/2025

***HAPPENING NOW***

At approximately 15:15 hours today, Freehold Fire Department (Station 15) & Freehold EMS were alerted to respond to a report of fire at a commercial property on Throckmorton Street.

Upon arrival of EMS units, additional Freehold EMS personnel and ambulances were requested to the scene as well as the implementation of incident rehab procedures.

Because fire suppression operations remain active, Freehold EMS personnel have staffed all four (4) available BLS units and an additional EMS supervisor ensuring we can handle not only this major incident but also any additional 911 emergency calls.

Please avoid the area as crews continue to work tonight.

🚨Initial Responding EMS Units🚨

Asst. Chief 1552 (EMS Branch Director)
BLS 1557
BLS 1558
BLS 1559
BLS 1561
MAB 2 (Neptune EMS/ SRHFAS)

12/02/2025

🚨NOVEMBER RESPONSE STATISTICS🚨

A busy November is in the books for your Freehold EMS members! This past month was one we are proud to share with our residents and followers! Our recap for the month is as follows:

Our response breakdown is as follows:

🚑October total calls: 449

***Breakdown of Assignments***

🚑Medical/ Traumatic Emergencies: 405
💥Motor Vehicle Accidents: 35
🚒Fire Calls: 6
🚑Special Events Coverage: 3
🚨Mutual Aid Cover Assignments: N/A

Mutual aid required: 0
Mutual aid provided: 14

🚨Total Requests for Service YTD: 5,368
💪November Answer Rate: 100%

A GREAT job to our hard working members and employees for the service they provide day in and day out!

In addition to doing a great job answering calls for service, on duty staff also took advantage of some rare downtime to clean up, repaint, and repair our display case downstairs where we have photos, antique medical and communications equipment used by Freehold members who paved the way for what we are today.

Borough of Freehold
Freehold Township

#1521

11/29/2025

The day after Thanksgiving always brings thousands of shoppers into Freehold Township. To better serve you, we add additional crews and ambulances to make sure we can best protect all of our residents and visitors as they shop, eat and enjoy all the things our wonderful community has to offer. Our three duty crews (1557, 1559, 1561) were out answering calls during the day today and had a moment to pause for another quick photo at the hospital before returning to service.

In addition, we proudly supported the Freehold Area Running Club for their annual “Born to Run” 5k in downtown Freehold Borough. A 4th ambulance, 1558, was staffed and provided standby EMS support ensuring all participants had a safe and enjoyable morning.

It’s always a pleasure to serve the freeholdtwp and freeholdboro community!

11/27/2025

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for our dedicated volunteers, employees, our community, and the opportunity to serve. 🦃🚑

From all of us at Freehold EMS—thank you for your continued support. Wishing everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

11/23/2025

11/22/2025

***VICTORY AT THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMS***

We are incredibly proud to share that Freehold EMS Team #1 consisting of Deputy Chief Chiusano and EMT Stephanie Russ have been victorious in the 2025 SIM Competition at the National Conference on EMS!

This year was the first year that our members participated in the SIM Competition and we proudly sponsored two teams consisting of four volunteer members. Our teams trained for months under intense conditions, preparing themselves to enter this competition and give it their all!

We are incredible proud of Jayton, Rich, Joey, and Stephanie on their achievements with this endeavor. Both of our teams worked hard and dedicated themselves to performing at the highest levels.

But of course, they didn’t do it alone. They had the coaches who put in the work, time, and expertise in the SIM competition to guide them through the process. Those coaches were our very own Tiffany and Eric Sacks (who are definitely happy coaches this evening).

Congratulations to our Freehold EMS teams and all the teams who participated in this important competitions to showcase not only their skills but the skills of NJ EMS!

A special shoutout goes out to our neighbors in on President (and Ex-Chief) Michele Lewis on receiving the Directors Award from the NJ Department of Health! Michele has been instrumental in the training of many EMTs in the state including many Freehold EMS EMTs! Congratulations Michele!

Borough of Freehold
Freehold Township

#1521 💪

11/11/2025

Today, we honor all who have served and continue to serve our nation. 🇺🇸

Your courage, sacrifice, and dedication protect the freedoms we hold dear.

Freehold EMS proudly salutes our veterans—thank you for your service.