Wood-Ridge Fire Department

Recent Calls

Sun. Aug 16th 2020

At 02:30 hours, the WRFD was dispatched to the area of 346 Wood-Ridge Ave for a reported fire. Chief Cribben arrived on scene and observed smoke and fire coming from the home at 347 Wood-Ridge Ave. Wo...

Moonachie structure fire

Fri. Aug 14th 2020

At 08:33 hours, Moonachie Fire Command requested a ladder truck to respond to 100 Carol Place, Moonachie for a fire in the building. T904 responded and firefighters were sent to the roof to check for...

Carbon monoxide incident

Fri. Aug 14th 2020

At 03:30 hours, the WRFD was dispatched to 245 Valley Blvd., Apartment 2C for a activated carbon monoxide detector. FFs recorded 54ppm of CO on the meters and determined the source of the CO to be sm...

Carbon monoxide incident

Thu. Aug 13th 2020

At 23:08 hours, the WRFD was dispatched to 300 Avalon Drive, Unit 3162 for a activated carbon monoxide detector. FFs recorded 34ppm of CO on the meters and determined the source of the CO to be smold...

Tropical Storm Isaias

Tue. Aug 4th 2020

The WRFD responded to 31 calls for service due to Tropical Storm Isaias. These runs included wires down, trees into structures and transformer and utility poles on fire.

News Headlines

Personal Safety System training

Sun. Aug 16th 2020

Following an early morning house fire at 347 Wood Ridge Ave., members trained on our newly acquired Personal Safety Systems. The borough recently purchased one for each interior firefighter. These sys...

New members

Mon. Jul 20th 2020

At the July meeting, Chief Cribben appointed Cassandra Ferry to a one year probationary firefighter period and assigned her badge #11. Cassandra moved up from the Junior Firefighter program. Chief C...

Exempt Association Memorial Service

Fri. Jul 10th 2020

The annual Wood-Ridge Fire Department Exempt Association Memorial Service was held on May 20, 2020. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the service was closed to the public and all members maintained soci...

Retired Ex-Chief Robert Gross answers his final alarm

Sun. Jun 21st 2020

It is with deep regret the Wood-Ridge Fire Department announces the passing of Retired Ex-Chief Robert Gross. Chief Gross served the WRFD for 25 years, retiring in 1993. He was Chief of Department i...

New EMS member

Tue. Jun 2nd 2020

At the June monthly meeting, Chief Cribben appointed Jessica Geigges as a probationary EMT and assigned her badge #56. Good luck Jessica!

One Hundred and Twenty Three Years of Dedicated Service

1897-2020

Welcome to the official website of the Wood-Ridge Fire Department and Emergency Squad. We are an all-volunteer organization providing fire suppression and emergency medical services to the Borough of Wood-Ridge, New Jersey.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine -

Kurt Vonnegut

2020 US Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths - 64

Please click on "The Fallen" section above

for more information on these heroes.

A NEW PAGE "THE MUSEUM" HAS BEEN ADDED TO OUR SITE.

CLINK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO SEE SOME WRFD HISTORY.

COVID-19 PSA

THANK YOU!

THINKING OF BECOMING A WOOD-RIDGE FIREFIGHTER and/or AN EMT?

WATCH THE VIDEOS BELOW

AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU!

"Join Our Family, Help Us Protect Yours"

The Wood-Ridge Fire Department is looking for members to join our family. Be part of the community and know that you make a difference in peoples lives.

If you are interested in becoming a member please contact the Fire Department at 201-939-2387 or send us an e-mail in the CONTACT US section above. We currently have four types of memberships:

FIRE / EMS FIRE Only EMS Only

Junior Fire Department (16-18 yrs)

Take a look around and please sign our guest book.

Thank you.

Last update - 8/22/20

Recent call and News added

THE BOROUGH OF WOOD-RIDGE IS NOW USING

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FOR ALERTS, ADVISORIES AND COMMUNITY MESSAGES

FROM THE BOROUGH & THE WRPD

PLEASE INSTALL SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS IN YOUR HOME AND TEST THEM MONTHLY... USE THE "CONTACT US" BUTTON ON THE LEFT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON TYPE OR AREA OF PLACEMENT. ALSO, SMOKE DETECTORS NEED TO BE REPLACED EVERY TEN YEARS AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS NEED TO BE REPLACED EVERY FIVE YEARS...

SMOKE & CO DETECTORS SAVE LIVES!