WHIPPANY FIRE DEPARTMENT

Upcoming Events Information

National Night Out @

The Hanover Township Police Department

August 3 , 2010

5:30 to 8:30PM

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July 22, 2010

Garage Fire in East Hanover

The Whippany Fire Department's R.I.C. Team (Rapid Intervention Crew) assisted East Hanover with a Dryer/Garage Fire this evening on Fay Drive.

July 6, 2010

Propane Tank Leak in East Hanover

The Whippany Fire Department was dispatched to assist East Hanover FD with a 1000 Gallon Propane Tank leaking from a relief valve ay Do-It-Yourself Rental.  Fire Department personnel applied a mist to the leak to cool down the relief valve which in turn stopped the leak.  Suburban Propane was requested to the scene to officially control the leak.

May 4, 2010

Tractor Trailer Rollover

The Whippany Fire Department was dispatched to assist the Cedar Knolls FD with a reported Tractor Trailer Rollover.  The truck driver apparently lost control of the vehicle while driving his truck from Route 24 west to northbound Route 287 around 2:20am in Hanover Township.  The tractor trailer which ran off the left side road and struck the guard rail, overturned and came to a rest on an embankment.  A chemical substance glyoxal, spilled onto the roadway from his truck, as a result the Morris County Hazmat Team was requested to assist the  Whippany Hazmat Team.

May 3, 2010

Explosion in Morristown

The Whippany Fire Department's Rapid Intervention Crew was dispatched to assist Morristown FD with explosion in the basement of the Morristown & Morris Township Library on South Street.

March 15, 2010

Whippany Fire Department’s water rescue unit requested to assist in kayak rescue. 

On Monday, March 15, 2010, the Morris County Fire Coordinator, Chief Jack Alderton called upon the Whippany Fire Department’s Swiftwater Rescue Team once again.

 The Water Rescue Team was deployed to Hacklebarney Park in Chester Township. The Swiftwater Rescue Team met up with units from Long Valley and Fairmount Fire Departments and the Clinton First Aid & Rescue Squad, who also have a Swiftwater Rescue Team. A combined effort was launched to determine if a kayak, located about 1 – 1 ½ miles into the park and being held under water by raging flood waters in the Black River contained anyone.   

Rope rescue units from the Long Valley and Fairmount Fire Departments provided the rigging for the Swiftwater Rescue combined team from Clinton First Aid Squad and Whippany Fire Department who launched an inflatable boat into the river, after a couple of failed attempts to reach the kayak members of the team were able to reach the trapped kayak and determine that no one was in the craft. 

Swiftwater Rescue Team members: Ian Bell, Tom Cobane, Shawn Johnston, Josh Makowski, Paul Perrello and Tom Rebyak supported by Ron Barz and Steve Willans are commended for a job well done.

March 14, 2010

Whippany Fire Department’s water rescue unit called into service at request of Morris County Deputy Fire Coordinator.

Major rains and wind inundate northern New Jersey creating flash flood conditions and trapping residents. 

On Sunday, March 14, 2010, the Deputy Fire Coordinator for Morris County called for the assistance of Water Rescue Teams from throughout the county, one of the teams pressed into service was the Whippany Fire Department’s Swiftwater Rescue Unit.

The Water Rescue Team was sent to assist the rescue of stranded residents in Pequannock, where the flood stage of the Pompton river is sixteen (16) feet, but the river crested at over twenty two (22) feet creating severe flooding conditions and stranding hundreds of residents. The Whippany Fire Department Water Rescue Team removed over thirty (30) victims stranded by the flood waters.   

Members of this elite swiftwater rescue unit are trained to perform rescues in fast moving water. Swiftwater rescue is one of the most dangerous types of technical rescue, in which one out of every nine drowning victims is a rescuer.    

The Whippany Fire Department has 17 members trained in Swiftwater Operations and 9 members trained as Swiftwater Technicians, of these 9 members 5 are trained to the Advanced Technician level.