The New Milford Fire Department responded to a structure fire on April 9 at an unoccupied Windsor Road residence shortly before 4:45 p.m.
Upon arrival at the home, located off Duke Road, Engines 32 and 33 quickly extinguished the fire. Oradell Truck Company 21 also responded to the initial alarm due to New Milford's ladder truck being out of service. Bergenfield Fire Department was also at the scene to act as a Rapid Intervention Team in the event that any firefighter was injured.
EMS units from Bergenfield, New Milford and Holy Name Hospital were on the scene as standby, while Dumont Fire Department provided cover-up for the borough.
No injuries were reported.

NMFD Softball fell 21-10 to Saddle Brook FD in the inaugural season opening game. The game was looking close up until the end. All hope isn't lost as this was the first game ever played by NMFD in the Bergen County Firefighter Softball League. With 2 weeks off Head Coach James Favia will be looking to learn from our mistakes against Saddle Brook and make us a formidable opponent for our home opener against Mahwah on April 15th.

While on vacation FF Chris Kerrigan and Lt Jose Tapia stoped by Santiago's main fire station to pay a visit to out Dominican brothers. Captain Luis Ramon Pichardo was kind enough to give Chris and Jose a tour of their station and a quick overview of their operations. Thanks and be safe!

(Left to right) Santiago Fire 1Lt Rodolfo Richardo Sosa, Captain Luis Ramon Pichardo with New Milford FD's FF/Eng Chris Kerrigan and Lt. Jose Tapia at Santiago's  main station.

At approx 12:25am Bergenfield Fire Department requested NMFD for a FAST team to respond to their Gavin Place for a working house fire in a vacant 2 1/2 story wood frame home. Tower 31 and Squad 36 responded in under the direction of Capt.  Dave Stormer. Units stood by on scene as their FAST team and assisted with overhaul of the structure. There were no reported injuries and NMFD units returned to HQ at around 3:30am.

The New Milford Fire Department was requested by Oradell on a 2nd Alarm to the 400 block of New Milford Avenue for a reported structure fire. 31 Truck, 34 Engine, Car 39, and Car 30 responded in. 31 Truck assisted with overhaul. The fire was contained and all units returned home safely.

Company 2 announces they were the recent recipient of a $1000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation’s Community Partners Program.  Employees from the New Milford Wells Fargo Bank branch were on hand at our August monthly meeting and presented the ceremonial check. The NMFD Company 2 will be using these funds towards the building of a new monument to honor our fallen and departed firefighters and those firefighters that met the ultimate sacrifice on September 11^th, 2001. The monument will incorporate a 12 foot piece of steel from the World Trade Center provided to us by the Port Authority of NY & NJ. Dedication of the monument is tentatively scheduled for November 27^th.

Pictured left to right Rafael Martinez(Branch Manager, Wells Fargo), Robert Ryan (President, NMFD Co2), Trfana Ahmed (Wells Fargo)
 

Company 2 recently sent a care package overseas to the Marines 2^nd Medical Battalion, 2^nd Marine Division. When members found out that JJ Tufaro, son of Assistant Chief James Tufaro was being deployed overseas they wanted to do something to give back to our troops especially one with such close ties to NMFD Company 2. JJ Tufaro is a corpsmen (Navy Paramedic) with the 2^nd Medical Battalion, 2^nd Marine Division of the Marine Corps currently deployed to the middle east. Pictured is a photo of the membership with the package and a photo of JJ and James.