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When St. Clare’s Denville Hospital was hit with a power outage Monday, officials at the Morris County, New Jersey, facility turned to the NJ EMS Task Force for help   Staging Officer James Mazza tracks personnel & equipment on site The NJ EMS Task Force immediately activated its Incident Advance Team to assess the emergency, the risk of an expanded incident, and what team members and equipment to deploy to mitigate the challenges St. Clare’s Denville Hospital faced. The NJ EMS Task Force deployed 19 team members along with GateKeeper1, a specialty response vehicle equipped with HVAC equipment to provide cooling for the areas of the hospital, and a two-room mobile medical tent structure should patient evacuations be necessary. “This was another glaring example of just how valuable the NJ EMS Task Force is to this state, and beyond,” said NJ EMS Task Force Leader Michael McCabe. “The versatility of this group cannot be overstated. I am honored to serve next to such an incredible group. Whether it is mass care or supporting healthcare facilities with portable HVAC equipment and logistical support, the team steps up and gets it done, always.” The St. Clare’s Denville Hospital response came just days after NJ EMS Task Force co-founder and leader Michael J. Bascom told team members the organization needed a sustainable form of funding to provide this critical service to the state. Michael J. Bascom, NJ EMS Task Force co-founder and president, said future emergency responses would be "contingent upon available funding to maintain our capability to provide this support."
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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. 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 New Jersey EMS Task Force members worked throughout the night and into early Saturday morning to assist local resources to evacuate the Montgomeryville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania.  2 of 4 Medical Ambulances Busses deployed overnight into Montgomery County PA to assist with a full facility evacuation. 1/26/2025 by NJEMSTF 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. 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. |
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