Fair Lawn Fire Co. 1
12-34 George Street
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Co. #1: (201) 794-5401
Fire Prev: (201) 794-5408
Fire HQ: (201) 794-5389
Poison: (800) 222-1222 To Report a Fire: 9-1-1
Because our company has four pieces of apparatus (including the boat) in service at all times, we act as a truck company, engine company, and a rescue company in some situations.
This means we respond to wide variety of calls in Fair Lawn and other municipalities. Our company is on call ready to serve the residents of Fair Lawn 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except for instances such as out of town training, or a borough fire evolution (eg: funeral services, or the annual FLFD dinner).
Most of the small fire calls we get (brush, mulch, and dumpster fires), we only respond to in our fire district. However these small fires need to be put out quickly to prevent it from spreading and becoming a major incident.
During a storm such as a flood, blizzard, or severe thunderstorm, we often get dispatched to "Standby" in our firehouse. Our members will usually stay overnight (and sometimes for a number of days) until the storm passes. On a mutual aid assignment, we usually standby in another municipalities firehouse (also sometimes overnight) where we could either get sent to the fire scene, or take another fire call in a separate location.
Here is the process our members go through when responding to a call:
1. A Firefighter gets paged a notification for the location and type of emergency call as it happens.
2. The Firefighter responds to the firehouse (they may be at home, at work, or on a daily routine)
3. In a matter of seconds, the Firefighter slips his full fire gear on and jumps in the apparatus.
4. The apparatus responds to the incident location.
Usually the whole process takes under five minutes!
Types of calls we respond to include:
Municipalities for Mutual Aid include:
Fire and Water Flow Alarms
Paterson
Smell of Smoke
Elmwood Park
Working Structural Fires
Hawthorne
Natural Gas Leaks
Saddle Brook
Elevator Rescues
Wyckoff
Water Rescues and Recoveries
Paramus
Car and Truck Fires
Glen Rock
Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Ridgewood
Brush and Mulch Fires
Garfield
Lightning Strikes
Mass Decontamination
Overturned Vehicles
Dumpster Fires
Call Statistics for 2010
Updated Monthly
Month
Number of Calls
January
60
February
45
March
67
April
61
May
43
June
44
July
57
August
September
October
November
December
Total
377
Call Statistics for 2009
Updated Monthly
Month
Number of Calls
January
66
February
49
March
41
April
51
May
43
June
36
July
52
August
48
September
41
October
61
November
59
December
58
Total
605
(c) 2010 Fair Lawn Fire Company 1. All Rights Reserved.
Because our company has four pieces of 
Fire and Water Flow Alarms