Editing Middletown Township, New Jersey (section)

====EMS====
There are five squads that make up the Township of Middletown EMS Department (EMS) and provide Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulances to the township. They are:
* [[Middletown First Aid and Rescue Squad]]
* Fairview First Aid Squad
* Port Monmouth First Aid Squad
* Leonardo First Aid and Rescue Squad 
* Lincroft First Aid and Rescue Squad
They are all volunteer as well.<ref>[http://www.middletownems.org/ Township of Middletown Emergency Medical Services]</ref> All except Port Monmouth have EMS rescue trucks with equipment to handle vehicle extrications and rope rescue. These squads also have boats and dive teams to perform rescue and recovery operations involving water which have been called out of town to assist with large area searches. Port Monmouth provides a bariatric unit, a converted ambulance, for severely overweight patients. It has been requested outside of Middletown Township as a back-up for the unit from the [[Monmouth Ocean Hospital Service Corporation]](MONOC).

Advanced Life Support or paramedics for the township and surrounding towns are provided by MONOC. The two primary paramedic units for Middletown Township are Medic 206 located at MTFD Station 8 (Middletown Fire Company No. 1) covering a majority of the town and Medic 201 located at South Aberdeen First Aid Squad in [[Aberdeen Township, New Jersey|Aberdeen]] covering the Northwestern end of town. Other medic units from farther distances are dispatched when these are not available.