Lebanon Township Volunteer Fire Department

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At the request of the Township Committee, we have assumed the responsibility for emergency medical response and transportation (EMS) within the Township.  This is in addition to our duties responding to fires and other types of emergencies.

The Lebanon Township Vol. Fire Department would like to assure all the residents of Lebanon Township that should they have the need to dial 911 in an emergency, they can expect all calls to be handled with utmost professionalism, whether they be fire or EMS calls.

All services performed by the Fire department are free and performed by volunteer firefighters and EMTs, all of whom are fire department members.

We welcome volunteers from the former ambulance squad to join us and continue their selfless efforts to assist those in need of emergency medical care within Lebanon Township. Several already have.

Currently, we are running one leased ambulance unit, since the former squad has refused to allow us to use the ambulances that were purchased with a combination of public funds and public donations.

Here is a recent article that features one of our responses assisting our fellow residents.

Lebanon Township firefighters make special delivery

By Veronica Slaght/For The Star-Ledger

May 26, 2010, 8:10PM

LEBANON TOWNSHIP -- A new Lebanon Township resident came into the world in the back of a speeding ambulance, with help from local firefighters Monday afternoon.

It wasn’t the first time Fire Chief Warren Gabriel helped deliver a baby in a moving vehicle, but it was a first for the fire department, which took over EMS duties for the township last month.

The baby boy was born at 4:12 p.m., just minutes before arriving at Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, Gabriel said.

Both mom and her newborn son were healthy, he added.

“It went pretty quick,” said Gabriel, a certified emergency medical technician. “After she started having the baby, it came after a minute or two.”

Gabriel has helped deliver babies twice before, when he was a member of the rescue squad.

Victoria Apadula, who was home alone, called for an ambulance around 3:30 p.m.

The fire department picked up the Lebanon Township woman and headed toward Hackettstown. The chief drove while firefighter and EMT Nancy Mayberry worked in the back with two Hunterdon Medical Center paramedics.

Along the way, Apadula’s husband, who had been at work, pulled up in a car next to the ambulance. They stopped to let him in, and he was with his wife when their second child arrived.

Gabriel, who also wears the hat of public works director in town, said the fire department has been responding to about 60 ambulance calls a month since taking on EMS duties in April. The department also typically receives 15 or 16 fire calls a month. Response times have been good, according to Gabriel, and four new members have joined — two are trained firefighters and all are EMTs.

“We’ve been doing a heck of a job handling all these calls,” Gabriel said.

Lebanon Township

Volunteer Fire Dept.

Station 19

Hunterdon County, NJ