Welcome to Dover Township Fire Department (Toms River, Ocean County, NJ)

The Toms River Communications Center is located at Police Headquarters (known as District 1) and is broken up into two sections: police dispatch and fire dispatch under the direct supervision of a police sergeant. Fire dispatch handles all calls for fire and EMS for the town and dispatches for 6 fire companies, 6 first aid squads, the Bureau of Fire Prevention, Office of Emergency Management, automatic and mutual aid fire / first aid. The staff enters calls into a Spillman's high-performance Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system that tracks calls for service and unit activities.

For more information about the Spillman Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD), please visit http://www.spillman.com/

CALLS FOR SERVICE

The following is a list of the yearly computer entries of calls for service and personnel details/assignments. This does not include non-emergency phone calls or radio transmissions in and out of the dispatch center:

Year
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

TRFD
19,433
21,401
19,008
20,149
15,883
16,957
13,160
13,889

TRPD
87,570
98,884
107,039
104,849
103,854
106,064
112,173
105,349

Communications Staff Fire dispatch is staffed by one dispatcher on duty working eight hour shifts. The following is a list of the communications officers and their badge numbers:
Full Time John Hopkins Bob Sinnott John Hafner Rodney Mesina CJ Weinberger Retired Ernest Stubbington	740 963 743 968 947 741	Part Time Paul Daley Brian Doyle Arron Bremer Jason Kaye Matt Teymant Michael Cocco Bill Nicoll Dave Julian	961 329 972 952 616 976 958 925
Silent Keys THE COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION HAS LOST A PART OF ITSELF, BUT THE CHARACTER WILL LIVE ON IN THOSE WHO WORKED WITH THEM. THE FOLLOWING IS IN HONOR OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT WE HAVE LOST. WHEN THEY LISTEN TO THE RADIO, DO THEY HEAR THE PERSON WHO'S TALKING? OR DO THEY MERELY HEAR THE VOICE? DO THEY HEAR THE EMOTIONS WE FEEL? DO THEY HEAR WHEN WE'RE SMILING AT WHAT WE'RE BEING TOLD? DO THEY HERE WHEN WE'RE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE WE CAN'T COPY THEM? CAN THEY HEAR WHEN WE'VE BECOME UPSET BY A CALL? CAN THEY HEAR THE TEARS WELLING IN OUR EYES WHEN WE'VE TAKEN A DISTRESSING CALL? CAN THEY HEAR WHEN WE'RE ANXIOUS ABOUT THEIR SAFETY? CAN THEY HEAR HOW MUCH WE WORRY ABOUT THEM? MOST OF ALL, DO THEY HEAR THE REAL PERSON BEHIND THAT VOICE ON THE RADIO?
Silent Keys Memorial
08/23/00 Fire Dispatcher John"BIG JOHN" G. Glowacki Age 34 Police Dispatch Teletype		11/24/02 Police Dispatcher Ryan "BIG DADDY" J. Gleeson Age 29 Police Dispatch Teletype

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