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Woodbridge Township is located in north central New Jersey, near the coast. With a population of nearly 100,000, Woodbridge Township is among the largest municipalities in the state. Woodbridge Township is comprised of 10 sections or towns, and Woodbridge Fire Department serves the residents of Woodbridge Proper and Sewaren, a population of approximately 25,000 over nearly 8.5 square miles. The response area includes residential, condominiums/townhouses, industrial, retail, hi-rise office buildings, two senior citizen buildings, a nursing home, five schools and one of the largest shopping malls in the northeast. Commuter and freight rail lines pass through the district as do portions of the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike and US Routes 1 & 9. Woodbridge Fire Department is dispatched through the Woodbridge Township 911 system. When a 911 call is received at Woodbridge Police Headquarters and it is determined to be a Fire Department related call, the information is sent to the Fire and EMS Dispatch Center, located at Station 7, Fords Fire Department Headquarters via a CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system. The call is then routed through the CAD to Station 1 for the career firefighters, and via radio pager to volunteers. WFD has the ability to communicate with other township departments, adjacent Fire Departments, EMS, State Police, local hospitals, local police departments, Coast Guard, and local businesses that utilize 2-way radios. Frequencies (MHz) typically used by WFD: 33.820 - Dispatch The high band frequencies utilize DPL (Digital Private Line). Woodbridge Fire Department runs 3
Engines, a Truck, 4 Fire Prevention Vehicles, an Incident Command Vehicle and a
rescue boat out of 1 station. The Department is combination, consisting of 49
volunteer and 28 career firefighters and responds to |