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The Flemington-Raritan First Aid and Rescue Squad is a combination volunteer and career Emergency Medical and Rescue Services provider serving Flemington Borough, Raritan Township, and parts of Readington and Delaware Townships.  We were established in 1952, following in the traditions set forth by the Flemington American Legion Ambulance and Civil Defense Corps.  Since then we have grown to an organization with over 60 members and a wide variety of specialized vehicles and equipment. We answered over 2300 calls for service in 2008.  We continue to work hard to grow and meet the needs of our diverse and ever changing community.  Our goal is to provide the most rapid and most professional services that our residents and business require.

We provide 24 hour a day 365 days a year coverage with crews in our station.  What this means is that when you call for our services, we are ready to respond immediately.  We have made this commitment to provide quicker service for you, our residents and businesses.  This coverage is provided by our dedicated volunteers and career employees.  Without their commitment, this type of service would not be possible.  We have an average response time of under 8 minutes to emergency calls.  This time is calculated from the time we are dispatched to your emergency to the time all equipment needed arrives on the scene to assist.  With over 50 square miles of coverage area, we are proud to offer these response capabilities.

The squad provides emergency ambulance services and specialized rescue services. 

Some of our Services Include

• Emergency Medical Services: 9-1-1 Ambulance Services.
• Special Event Stand-By's:  If you are holding a sporting event or a large gathering and would like an ambulance to be on hand in the event of an emergency, give us a call.
• Community Education: We will send our personnel and units to schools and daycare centers as well as any other community groups to display our equipment and give some basic safety tips.
• Station Tours: Interested in seeing our facilities?  Stop by our headquarters at 26 Route 12, next to Carvers Auto Parts) in Flemington.  We would be happy to give you a tour of our facilities and equipment.

Some of the specialized services we provide include:

• Vehicle and Machinery Extrication: Assisting victims who are trapped in their vehicles or machinery using powered tools to remove them safely and effectively minimizing potential for further injury
• Rope Rescue: Assisting injured persons that are otherwise inaccessible by conventional means such as people injured in ravines, on water towers, or other similar situations
• Confined Space Rescue: Assisting victims who have become injured/incapacitated in areas that are difficult to access such as industrial machines and tanks, underground pipes and other situations
• Water Rescue: Assisting victims stranded in floods and fast moving water, or who have fallen through the ice in winter months.  
• Building Collapse Rescue: Assisting persons who have become trapped in collapsed structures or vehicles that have crashed into buildings
• Trench Rescue: Assisting victims who are caught in collapsed trenches and excavations
• Fire Support: Assisting our local fire departments with fire suppression and R.I.T. capabilities

Our squad provides emergency ambulance services with 4 well equipped ambulances and rescue services with one heavy rescue truck, a collapse rescue truck, a marine rescue vehicle, a rescue trailer and a boat.  To see and read about these vehicles, see the Apparatus page.

We are always looking for volunteers.  Without the dedication of our volunteers, our organization would require much more financial support from you, the taxpayers.  It is through many hours of hard work and dedication of these people that you are able to receive quality and well trained services and equipment.  We are a non-profit organization and rely on your donations to supplement our operating budget.  Please don't forget us when you receive a donation request in the mail.

Anyone interested in becoming a member may call (908) 782-3293 or (908) 782-6103.  We have several classes of membership to meet your availability.  Training is all free and provided as is all required equipment.