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/

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:

Communications Supervisor
Bob Sinnott

Full Time
John Hopkins
Bob Sinnott
John Hafner
Rodney Mesina
CJ Weinberger

 Email:

Part Time
Paul Daley
Arron Bremer
Michael Cocco
Bill Nicoll
Dave Julian
Paul Guichard

Email:

Wireless Communications
Ed Cittadino

Retired
Ernest Stubbington

Township Fire Zone Map

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?

08/23/00
Fire Dispatcher John"BIG JOHN" G. Glowacki
Age 34

Police Dispatch Teletype