Fire Company 1 is home to Colts Neck's 95 foot Tower Ladder along with an engine, brush truck, utility unit and 4,000 gallon tanker. As of 2009, there are 48 active members including four Fire Police Officers, and 50 retired Life Members. The original building just off Rt. 537 contains a members' common area and meeting room, admistration office, gym, kitchen, and banquet hall. The building in the rear of the property houses the company's vehicles. There is also a large picnic and outside entertainment area used for special events.
Company #2
Fire Company 2 houses two engines and two tractor-trailer tankers along with a brush truck and utility truck. As of 2009, there are 37 active members with five Fire Police Officers, and 10 retired Life Members. The company's newly constructed firehouse opened Memorial Day Weekend of this year and includes a members' common area and meeting room, administration offices, kitchen, and previously existing banquet hall. The most important feature of the new firehouse is a more spacious garage area. It has the capability of keeping all seven vehicles inside, something the former building could not do.
Dispatching
When you dial 9-1-1, your call is answered at the Monmouth County Sheriff's 9-1-1 Communications Center in Freehold Township. The operators at this center dispatch Colts Neck Police, Fire, and First Aid. All firemen have mobile pager alerting units, about the size of a cell phone, which are activated when there is a fire call. There is also a siren located at Company #1. Both companies are dispatched to every fire call.
Operations
Only a limited number of developments in town, including "The Grand", have fire hydrants. Because the majority of Colts Neck has no water system, all water for firefighting operations must either be carried by tanker trucks or pumped from local streams, ponds, and swimming pools. This is a procedure known as "drafting".
Colts Neck is also part of the Monmouth County Mutual Aid Tanker Task Force which allows the fire department to call upon surrounding towns such as Marlboro and Howell to provide additional tanker vehicles at a fire scene. There is also an agreement between Colts Neck and N.W.S. Earle where the Navy's fire department services may be called upon to assist at a fire scene.
The Fire Department's fire-police unit assists the Police Department in traffic and crowd control and assists the Fire Department in the security of the fire scenes.
