(October 11) At 9:04 am a passing motorist on Route 23 observed visible fire from Tony's Pizza, a landmark restaurant in the Stockholm section of Hardyston Township, Sussex County for decades. Hardyston units arrived to a well involved fire which had already self vented. JTFD#1 was paged for mutual aid. Responding units from Jefferson were [...]
(October 1) At 10:50 am on October 1, JTFD#1 and JTFD#2 were dispatched to a residence on Cozy Lake Road in the Milton section, near the Co. 1 substation for a working structure fire. Multiple callers were reporting a working fire at the time of dispatch. Arriving units found a single story single family home [...]
(April 30) On April 1 2008, JTFD#1 was alerted to go mutual aid into the Oak Ridge section of West Milford Township, Passaic County for the working structure fire. Responding from Milton was Engine 722, Rescue 725 and Chief A. Schmidt in Command Unit 730. Upon arrival at the scene, the first arriving chief and [...]
(February 17) Members of Jefferson Township Fire Co. 1 completed various levels of training in Ice Rescue this past weekend. The training was conducted by members of Jefferson Fire Co. 2 who are certified instructors for Life Saving Resources. The first part of the course consisted of a 3 hour class room session for Awareness [...]
(January 20) JTFD#1 held its annual Installation Dinner this past Saturday at the Zeris Inn, Denville. Chief Andrew Schmidt was installed along with his line officers: Asst Cheif Guy Bakera, Capt Vinny Corsaro and Lt. Gerry Brown; Engineers Paul Schaller, Jr., Rich Boonstra and Tom Galfo. Mayor Russell Felter administered the oath of office in [...]