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 c
ontinue 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.
