Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Bloomfield, New Jersey
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
====Emergency services==== The township maintains its own [[Bloomfield Police Department (New Jersey)|police department]].<ref>[http://www.bloomfieldpdnj.com/Home.aspx Home Page], Bloomfield Police Department. Accessed July 1, 2016.</ref> The town is protected by a fire department consisting of 78 active professional firefighters who operate out of four stations, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is also a squad of volunteers. In 2009, the department received international accreditation.<ref>[https://www.bloomfieldtwpnj.com/195/Accreditation Accreditation], Township of Bloomfield. Accessed September 11, 2019. "On Tuesday March 10, 2009 the Bloomfield Fire Department received International Accreditation with the Center for Public Safety Excellence."</ref> The Fire Prevention Bureau established in 1953 and described as the first of its kind in the state, is operated by the department. It consists of one fire inspector, one fire official and a small support staff of civilians and fire personnel.<ref>[https://www.bloomfieldtwpnj.com/176/Fire-Prevention John H. "Jack" Flaherty Fire Prevention Bureau], Township of Bloomfield. Accessed February 9, 2018. "In October of 2006 The Bloomfield Fire Department named our Fire Prevention Bureau in honor of former Fire Chief John H "Jack" Flaherty.... Listed are but a few of Chief Flaherty's initiatives and accomplishments that are now standards in most fire departments statewide. Created Bloomfield Fire Prevention Bureau 1953 - 1st of its kind in the state."</ref> The department apparatus consist of four engines (one is a rescue pumper), one Truck/Ladder, a rescue and three reserve apparatus. Engine 1 located at the fire headquarters frequently closes due to lack of manpower.<ref>[https://www.bloomfieldtwpnj.com/163/Fire-Suppression Fire Suppression], Township of Bloomfield. Accessed September 1, 2019.</ref> In 2018, the [[Insurance Services Office]] once again listed the fire department as a class 2 agency, recognizing it in the top five percent of the nation's fire departments, a ranking it had held for the ten previous years. As of 2020, the department is again working toward achieving accreditation status.<ref>Kiefer, Eric. [https://patch.com/new-jersey/bloomfield/bloomfield-fire-department-ranked-top-5-nation-officials "Bloomfield Fire Department Ranked In Top 5% Of Nation: Officials The Bloomfield Fire Department placed well β again β on the Insurance Service Organization's ratings for municipal fire agencies."], Bloomfield, NJ Patch, April 12, 2018. Accessed September 11, 2019. "The ISO rates 46,042 municipalities across the country, with only 241 receiving a class 1 distinction, and 1,324 receiving a class 2 distinction, placing The Township of Bloomfield in the top 5% of all municipal fire departments in the entire country. Bloomfield has been assessed a class 2 rating for over a decade."</ref> The Fire Chief is Louis Venezia. He is the brother of former mayor, Michael Venezia.<ref name=Administration>[http://www.bloomfieldtwpnj.com/main/site-page/administration Administration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627144144/http://www.bloomfieldtwpnj.com/main/site-page/administration |date=2016-06-27 }}, Township of Bloomfield. Accessed March 16, 2018.</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Bloomfield, New Jersey
(section)
Add topic