Members of the New Jersey EMS Task Force supported the Ocean County EMS Coordinators and the New Jersey Forest Fire Service earlier this week, working to fight the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County.

The NJEMSTF was activated shortly after the fire began and partnered with the Ocean County EMS Coordinators with Incident Advance Team members, staging, planning and leadership help.

The NJEMSTF also dispatched specialty response vehicles from host agencies into the region to support the EMS branch of the attack.
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NJEMSTF leadership was on hand through late Wednesday evening.

In addition to the NJEMSTF, participating agencies included: 
AtlantiCare EMS (Atlantic)*
Barnegat First Aid Squad
Bayville EMS
Beechwood Emergency Medical Services
Brick Township EMS/Rescue*
Colts Neck FAS (Monmouth)
Evesham EMS (Burlington) 
Exceptional Medical Transport (Atlantic)
Freehold EMS (Monmouth) 
Galloway EMS (Atlantic)*
Great Bay Regional EMS
Howell First Aid (Monmouth) 
Jackson Township EMS*
Lakewood First Aid*
Lanoka Harbor EMS*
Little Silver EMS (Monmouth)
Manchester Division of Emergency Services *
Monmouth County Sheriff/EMS*
Pleasant Plains First Aid
Point Boro EMS
Point Pleasant First Aid & Rescue Squad
Robert Wood Johnson Mobile Health Services*
Shark River Hills/Neptune EMS (Monmouth)*
South Branch Emergency Services (Hunterdon) *
South Toms River EMS
Stafford Township EMS
Tri-Care Medical Transportation (Atlantic)
Toms River First Aid Squad
Toms River Police EMS
Virtua EMS (Burlington) *
Waretown First Aid Squad

* NJEMSTF Host/Sponsoring Agency

The NJEMSTF deployed four Medical Ambulance Buses, support staff, and planners to the facility shortly after 1:30 a.m. Saturday, January 25, 2025. The Montgomeryville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was forced to evacuate after a water main broke, flooding the facility.

The Montgomery County EMS coordinator requested help from the NJEMSTF.
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The facility needed to move 144 patients to regional skilled nursing and hospital locations, so it requested the NJ EMS Task Force’s fleet of Medical Ambulance Buses, which can transport and care for multiple patients in wheelchairs simultaneously. NJ EMS Task Force MABs stationed in Keyport, AtlantiCare, North Brunswick, and Ewing responded to the incident. Additional units in the NJEMSTF MAB response were available if needed. The NJ EMS Task Force Medical Ambulance Buses transported 29 people to five facilities.