Please remember to test your smoke detectors!
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Is Your House Properly Numbered?  Please consider placing 3" reflective numbers on your mailbox.  Every second in the time of an emergency is crucial.  We don't want to waste those precious moments trying to locate your residence!

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Current members of the Board of Fire Commissioners are:

Joseph Civitello (chairperson), Donald LaBanca (vice-chairperson), James Blakeslee, John Florio and Angelo Tosi. Board clerk is Diane B. Whalen.

We Are Very Proud of Our Members' Accomplishments
- 2007 MRT Class -

12 members of the North Branford Fire Department recently completed Medical Response Technician (MRT) Training and became state certified Medical Response Technicians.  Pictured above are (standing L-R) Captain John Florio, Christian Mastrianni, Mark Spinello, Matthew Boudreau and Chief William Seward. Kneeling (L-R) Justin Florio, Nichole Angiollo and Vincent Rapuano.  In addition to those present at the September 2007 Board of Fire Commissioners' meeting, the following members also became MRT's: Mario DeRosa, Ben Johnson, Quint Johnson, Mark Langan and Thomas McNamara.

Also, three members recently completed FireFighter I.  
They are Michael Gerwien, Craig O'Rourke, Kim Wilson

The North Branford Fire Department has completed sixty-seven years of dedicated service to the Town of North Branford, a department comprised of all-volunteer personnel.  During fiscal year 2006-2007 the North Branford Fire Department continued its focus on emergency medical services, life safety, fire suppression and personal safety. The four companies responded to 1,532 calls during the 2006-2007 fiscal year.  The breakdown of calls was 1,249 medical; 202 fires (includes alarms, etc.) and 81 motor vehicle accidents. The North Branford Fire Department is constantly training its members in order to keep up with new changes in building construction, HazMat, fire suppression and medical training.  This requires many hours of our volunteers' personal time in order to maintain their skills.  During fiscal year 2003-04, staffing of the primary ambulance was outsourced to Vintech Management Services.  Volunteers still pull roughly 20% of the shifts and are compensated on a pay-per-call program which the Board of Fire Commissioners approved in the fall of 2003.
 
During fiscal year 2007-08, the Department is again seeking state and local funding and approval to upgrade the level of pre-hospital emergency medical care from Basic Life Support (BLS) to Advanced Life Support (ALS).  This will be included in the 2008-09 budget discussions.

The newest additions to our fleet are two 2006 ambulances, known locally as Ambulance 4 and 44.  These replace 1993 and 1997 vehicles that had exceeded their useful life.  The ambulances are built on GMC 4500 cab & chassis and feature modules built by American Emergency Vehicles (AEV).   The ambulances are identical which allows for a systematic weekly rotation of the frontline vehicle without the concern of staff familiarity with two different modules.  Congratulations to the officers and members of Company 4 who put a great deal of effort into this process and are proud of their new ambulances.

Ambulance 4

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