The Ocean County Compendium of History
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Famous Residents & Visitors
First Responders
Civil Defense
Berkeley Township Civil Defense
Berkeley Township Junior Civil Defense
Emergency Services & 911
Berkeley Township SCUBA Team
First District Mobilization Officers
Fifteenth District Mobilization Officers
Ocean County Mental Health Clinic
Ocean County System of Emergency Numbers
Fire Companies & Departments
Barnegat
Barnegat Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Pinewood Estates Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Warren Grove Fire Company
Bay Head Borough
Bay Head Fire Company
Berkeley Township
Bayville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Berkeley Township Emergency Response/HazMat Team
Manitou Park Volunteer Fire Company
Pinewald Pioneer Volunteer Fire Department Company No. 1
Beachwood Borough
Beachwood Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Brick Township
Brenton Woods Fire Company
Brick Township Fire District No. 1
Brick Township Fire Department No. 2
Herbertsville Fire Company
Laurelton Fire Company
Pioneer Hose Company
Eagleswood Township
Eagleswood Fire Company
Island Heights Borough
Island Heights Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Jackson Township
Cassville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Jackson Fire District No. 3
Jackson Mills Fire Company No, 1
Jackson Township Fire Company No. 1
Jackson Township Firemens Mutual Benevolent Association Local 86
Six Flags Great Adventure Fire Department
Whitesville Volunteer Company No. 1
Lacey Township
Bamber Lakes Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Forked River Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Company 61
Lakehurst Borough
Lakehurst Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Naval Air Engineering Station Fire Department Local F-114
Lakewood Township
Engine Company No. 1
Hook & Ladder Company
Junior Hose Company No. 3
Lakewood Fire Headquarters
Reliance Hose Company No. 4
Rescue Company No. 2
Lavallette Borough
Lavallette Fire Company
Little Egg Harbor Township
Mystic Island Fire Company
Parkertown Fire Company
West Tuckerton Fire Company
Long Beach Island
Barnegat Light
Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Beach Haven
Beach Haven Fire Company
Harvey Cedars
HighPoint Volunteer Fire Company Station 51
Ship Bottom
Ship Bottom Fire Company No. 1
Manchester Township
Manchester Fire Company
Ridgeway Fire Company
Whiting Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Mantoloking Borough
Mantoloking Fire Co. 1
Ocean Gate Borough
Ocean Gate Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Ocean Township
Waretown Volunteer Fire Company
Pine Beach Borough
Pine Beach Volunteer Fire Company
Plumsted Township
New Egypt Fire Company
Plumsted Township Fire District No. 1
Point Pleasant Beach Borough
Ocean Fire Company No. 1
Point Pleasant Fire Company No. 2
Point Pleasant Fire Department
Point Pleasant Borough
Point Pleasant Boro Fire Company No. 1 (now Station 75)
Point Pleasant Boro Fire Company No. 2 (now Station 75)
Point Pleasant Boro Fire Department
Seaside Heights
Seaside Heights Fire Department
Seaside Park
Seaside Park Fire Department Fire Company No. 1
Stafford Township
Stafford Township Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 Station 47
Toms River Township
Dover Township Board of Fire Commissioners District 1
Dover Township Fire Department
East Dover Volunteer Fire Company No. 4
Manchester Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Manitou Park Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, Inc.
Ocean Beach Volunteer Fire Company No. 3
Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Department
Silverton Volunteer Fire Company No. 1
Toms River Fire Company No. 1
Toms River Fire Company No. 2
Tuckerton Borough
Tuckerton Fire Department No. 1, Inc.
West Tuckerton Volunteer Fire Company Station 71
Fire Wardens, Marshalls & Offices of Fire Prevention
Ocean County Fire Marshal's Office
Ocean County Fire Police
Toms River Bureau of Fire Prevention
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First Aid & EMS Squads
Barnegat Township
Barnegat Volunteer First Aid Squad
Quality Medical Transport (Paid squad)
Bay Head Borough
Beachwood Borough
Beachwood First Aid Squad
Berkeley Township
Bayville First Aid Squad
Holiday City-Berkeley First Aid Squad
Holiday Heights First Aid Squad
Tri-Boro First Aid Squad (Pelican Island & South Seaside Park)
Brick Township
Brick Township Volunteer Emergency Medical Services
BTPD Emergency Medical Services (Paid squad)
Community First Aid Squad
Herbertsvbille First Aid Squad
Eagleswood Township
Great Bay Regional Emergency Medical Services
Island Heights Borough
Island Heights First Aid Squad
Jackson Township
Jackson Township First Aid Squad
Great Adventure First Aid Squad
Quality Medical Transport (Paid squad)
Lacey Township
Bamber Lake Fire Company Emergency Medical Services
Lacey Township Underwater Rescue & Recovery
Lacey Township First Aid Squad
Lanoka Harbor EMS 26
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS) First Aid Squad
Lakehurst Borough
Lakehurst First Aid Squad
Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Lakehurst Ambulances
Lakewood Township
Hatzolah Emergency Medical Services
Lakewood Township Emergency Medical Services (Paid squad)
Lakewood Township First Aid & Emergency Services
Leisure Village First Aid Squad
Lavallette Borough
Lavallette First Aid Squad
Little Egg Harbor Township
Great Bay Regional Emergency Medical Services
Tuckerton First Aid Squad
Long Beach Township
Barnegat Light Borough
Barnegat Light First Aid Squad
Beach Haven Borough
Beach Haven First Aid Squad
Harvey Cedars Borough
Ship Bottom Borough
Surf City Borough
Surf City Fire Company Emergency Medical Services
Manchester Township
Manchester Township First Aid Squad
Whiting First Aid Squad
Mantoloking Borough
Monoc Paramedic
Ocean Medical Center Unit (Brick & northern Ocean County)
Kimball Medical Center Unit (Lakewood & northern Ocean County)
Lakehurst Naval Air Station Station Unit
Community Medical Center Unit (Toms River Area)
Lavallette to Island Beach State Park in summer season
Southern Ocean County Medical Center - Stafford Unit
Night time BLS/EMS coverage for Holiday City Berkeley
Ocean Township
Waretown First Aid Squad
Ocean Gate Borough
Ocean Gate First Aid Squad
Pine Beach Borough
Plumsted Township
New Egypt First Aid Squad
Plumsted Township Emergency Medical Services (Paid squad)
Point Pleasant Beach Borough
Point Pleasant First Aid & Emergency Medical Services
Point Pleasant Borough
Point Pleasant Borough First Aid Squad
Seaside Heights Borough
Tri-Boro First Aid Squad
Seaside Park Borough
Tri-Boro First Aid Squad
South Toms River Borough
South Toms River First Aid Squad
Stafford Township
Stafford Township First Aid Squad
Toms River Township
Dover-Brick Beach First Aid Squad
East Dover First Aid Squad
Ortley Beach First Aid Squad
Pleasant Plains Volunteer First Aid Squad
Silverton Emergency Medical Services
Toms River First Aid Squad
Toms River Township Office of Emergency Management
TRPD Emergency Medical Services (Paid squad)
Tuckerton Borough
Great Bay Regional Emergency Medical Services
Fires & Fire Science
Arson & Arsonists
Arson & Robbery
Frank Parker House Fire, West Creek (1892)
John Robertson House Robbery-Arson, Toms River (1884)
Debbie Platt's Tavern (1870s)
Arsonists
Walter Burke
Former Beachwood Councilman Indicted House Fire (1997)
Richard N. Crammer
Causeway Inn Arson (1987)
David Dunfee
E.P. Emson House Arson, Cassville, Jackson (1884)
Fireman (need name)
Firemen Charged with Setting 50 Fires (1977)
Robert Flood
Police Officer Forest Fire Arson (1964)
Patrick J. Geraghty
Berkeley & Brick Forest Fire Arsons 100 mph Chase (1964)
Mrs. Unknown Huggins
Jesse Huggins Barn Arson by His Wife, New Egypt (1885)
Birdie Jennings
Insane Owner House Fire Arson (1956)
Joseph Marton
Blew Up House to Keep from Ex-Wife (1983)
Frederick Muller
Cowperthwaite's Exchange Arson Trial, Toms River (1891)
Robert J. Pascale
Firemen Indicted for Setting 10 Fires, Barnegat (1997)
David Southard
E.P. Emson House Arson, New Egypt (1892)
Joseph Southard
James Cottrell Farm Barn Arson, New Egypt (1892)
Paul Vleck
Stafford Forest Fire Arson (1940)
Insurance Fraud
William Chamberlain House Fire, Manahawkin (1888)
Miscellaneous
Barnegat Arson Spree (1988)
Eureka Building, Point Pleasant (1885)
Abandoned House Fire Arson, Jackson (1995)
Murder by Arson
Mary Ann Adie (1997)
Unknown Juvenile Named only as J.A.
Lenwood Archer (2005)
Paul C. Wilson
Breisdel-Davidson-Levinson-Poulas (1967) Fred E Craft
Clayton-Lang (1928)
Elim Burrows
Kiriaki Tyris & Vasile Vlaicu (1992) (1992)
Forked River House Fire
Great Adventure Fire (1984)
Unknown Arsonist
Ocean County Jail Fire (1959)
General Petersen
Sean Riccio (1994)
Stacey Dawn Ross
David Schumm (1982)
Loretta Ruvolo
Julian & Katherine Thomaszewski (1915)
Gilto Plazziano (assumed)
Woods & Forest Fires
Bayville & Pine Beach Forest Fire Arson (1911)
Woods Fire Arson, Lakewood (1887)
Woods Fire Arson, Toms River (1860)
Automobile Fires
Route 9 Car Fire, Bayville
Boarding House Fires
Lakewood Boarding House Fire (1920)
Point Pleasant Beach Boarding House Fire (1981)
Boardwalk, Park & Pavilion Fires
Berkeley Arms Pavilion Fire (1892)
Great Adventure Arcade Fire (1981)
Great Adventure Funhouse Fire (1984) (see Murder by Arson)
Point Pleasant Fire (1975)
Seaside Heights Boardwalk Fire (1958)
Seaside Heights Boardwalk Fire - Restaurant-Ice Cream Parlor (1976)
Seaside Heights Boardwalk Fire - Funtown USA Amusement Pier (1976)
Seaside Heights Boardwalk Fire (1980)
Seaside Heights Boardwalk Fire (1983)
Seaside Heights Casino Pier Fire (1965)
See Video
Seaside Heights Freeman's Amusement Center Fire (June 9, 1955)
See Video
Seaside Heights Pizzeria Fire (1988)
Seaside Park Pavilion Fire (1914)
Boat & Vessel Fires
Houseboat Fire (1940)
Morro Castle (1930)
Business & Store Fires
Ayres Brothers Brickyard Fire (1888)
Bailey Meat Market Fire (1882)
Brackman Lumberyard, Lavallette (July 1965)
Casino Fire at Casino Park (1894)
Barnegat Park Office Fire (1891)
Carpet Contractors/Sea Breeze Barbershop Fire (1986)
Castle Woodcraft Fire (1992)
L. Cohens Store Fire (1891)
Cosmic Gift Shop Fire (1975)
Cowpertwait Exchange Basement Fire (1886)
G.C. Cranmer Store Fire (1887)
EP Empson Building Fire (1892)
Adoph Ernst Cigar Store Fire (1892)
Benjamin Evernham Store Fire (1892)
Benjamin Evernham Store Fire (1893)
Genos Pizza Fire (1983)
Grants Department Fire (1965)
Grover's Grocery Store Fire (1890)
Gwyer Fruit Store Fire (1892)
Harvey Cedars Gun Club Fire (1879)
Dr Hilliard Office Fire (1887)
Hirchs Store Fire (1891)
Hochberg & Hallar Dry Goods Store Fire (1900)
Holman Store Robbery & Fire (1895)
Horses Perish in Lumber Yard Fire in Lakewood (1915)
Sheriff Ed Ivins Store Fire (1878)
Jacobsen Business & Apartment Building Fire, Ocean Gate (1924)
Kings Furniture Fire (1978)
Kosich Furniture Fire, South Toms River (1986)
George M. Lane Storehouse Fire (1878)
Lauria Building Fire (1957)
Levin's Department Store Fire (1971)
Marion Inn & Harris Store Fire (1930)
Charles B. Mathis Office & Post Office Fire (1887)
Millinery Store Fire (1880)
Moores Farm Market Fire (1986)
Old Potter Building Fire (1898)
Pedersen Produce Market Fire, Beach Haven (1940)
A Shear Delight Beauty Salon, Point Pleasant Beach (1983)
Pittengers Livery Stable & Blacksmith Shop Fire
Rays Fabrics Fire (1985)
Seaside Heights Multi-Store Fire (1982)
Snyder & Page Shop Fire (1888)
Abe Stout Store & Forest Fire,Silverton (1935)
Traco Drug Store Fire (1962)
Trash Bin Fire
Joe Tuan Store Fire (1891)
United Feed Company Granary Fire (1959)
Unknown Furniture Store on Main & Water Street Toms River
Water Street Store Fires, Toms River (1924)
Water Street Store Fires, Toms River (1939)
Whiting RR Station & Post Office Fire (1897)
Ye Olde School Inn, Lavallette (August 1972)
Church Fires
Brick Church and Schoolhouse Fires (1915)
Church of the Nazarene Fire (1976)
First Methodist Church Fire, Tuckerton (1979)
Holmansville Church Fire (1923)
Lakewood Baptist Church Fire (1886)
Presbyterian Church of Toms River Fire (1868)
William Raws Memorial Building Fire at Keswick (1942)
United Methodist Church Fire, Lacey (1990)
Universalist Memorial Church Fire, Lacey (1973)
Farm & Barn Fires
S.R. Applegate Shed Fire (1891)
Unknown Applegate Barn in Lightning Fire, Toms River (1854)
Warren Applegate Barn Fire, Cedar Grove, Toms River (1891)
Nathan Atkinson Barn Fire (1891)
George Austin Barn Fires, Tuckerton (1897)
William Balderson Lightning Barn Fire, New Egypt (1920)
Barn Fires in Lakewood (1930)
Barn Fire & Horse Death, Jackson (1994)
Annie Burleson Barn Fire, Whitesville, Jackson (1893)
Central Hotel Barn Fires Kills Horses, New Egypt (1932)
Jesse Clayton Farmhouse Fire, Hope Chapel, Lakewood (1922)
Corlis Clayton Barn Fire, Silverton (1895)
Cranberry Bog Fire, Goose Creek (1885)
Cranberry Bog Fire, Stickhole (1890)
Dr. Rem Disbrow Barn Fires, Toms River (1896)
Christian D. Emson Barn Fire, Jackson (1886)
E.P. Emson Barn Fire, Colliers Mills, Jackson (1891)
Firecracker Starts Barn Fire (1996)
Four Lightning Fires, New Egypt (1922)
John Graw Farm Fire, Toms River (1894)
Uriah Havens Barn Fire, Forked River (1887)
Nelson Hutchinson Barn Fire (1880)
Hugh Johnson Barn & Horses Burnt, Bursville (Brick) (1918)
Stephen V. Johnson Hotel Barn Fire, Cedar Creek, Lacey (1891)
Henry Keeler Barn Fires, Arnytown (1898)
John Larkin Barn Fire, Hornerstown (1878)
John Letts Stable Fire, Manahawkin (1879)
Maud Moller Farmhouse Fire, Bayville (1921)
Multi-Farm Fire in New Egypt (1991)
William A. Parker Barn Fire, Prospertown (1887)
John B. Pendleton Barn Fire, Toms River (1866)
Ezekiel Perrine Barn Fire, Cedar Grove, Toms River (1895)
Samuel D. Polhemus Barn Lightning Fire, White Oak Bottom (1899)
Joseph E. Sapp Barn Fire, Tuckerton (1932)
James Speck Barn Fire, Tuckerton (1893)
Stillwell Barn Fire, Osbornville (1887)
John Wilbur Outhouse & Barn Fires, Cedar Grove, Toms River (1898)
Fatalities
Barnegat
Fireman Harry L. Carter Dies Fighting House Blaze (1912)
Lavallette
Grand Central Avenue Cottage Fire - 2 Women (January 1955)
Magee Avenue House Fire - Married Couple (March 1968)
Brooklyn Avenue - Elderly Artist (March 1969)
President Avenue - 1 Woman (May 1972)
Dickman Drive - 18-year-old man (June 1973)
Seaside Park
Sumner Avenue House Fire - 3-ye
Fire Academy
Forest Fire Training
Ocean County Fire Training Center
Fire Alarms
Presbyterian Church of Toms River Bell as Fire Alarm (1898)
Fire Alarm Procedure (1919)
Fire Insurance
Fischer, Brown & Co. (1897)
Fire Protection (see First Responders)
Asbestos Shingles (1898)
Fire Towers
Forked River Station Fire Tower (1898)
Forest & Brush Fires (listed chronologically)
Forest & House Fires, West Creek (1866)
Forest Fire, Jackson (1873)
Brush Fire, Lakewood (1879)
Forest Fire, Toms River (1880)
Forest Fire, Toms River, Jackson, Manchester, Whiting, Bamber (1880)
Forest Fire, Whitesville, Holmansville, Bennett's Mills (1880)
Swamp Fire, Oyster Creek Swamp, Waretown (1880)
Forest Fire, Whiting (1880)
Forest Fire, Sunken Branch Cranberry Bog (1880)
Forest Fire, Whiting (1880)
Forest Fire, Barnegat & Waretown (1885)
Forest Fire, Toms River (1887)
Forest Fire, Buckingham & Hanover (1887)
Brush Fire, Forked River (1888)
Forest Fire, Forked River (1888),
Swamp Fire, Toms River (1888)
Forest Fire, Cedar Bridge, Toms River & Lakewood (1890)
Forest Fire, Barnegat (1891)
Forest Fire, Toms River (1891)
Forest Fire, Toms River & Lakewood (1891)
Forest Fire, Waretown (1891)
Forest Fire, Waretown (1891)
Forest Fire, Forked River Mountains (1891)
Forest Fire, Toms River & Barnegat Park (1892)
Forest Fire, Toms River (1892)
Forest Fire, Toms River & Burrsville (Brick) (1892)
Forest Fire, Tuckerton (1893)
Forest Fire, Toms River (1893)
Forest Fire, Toms River & Barnegat Park (1893)
Forest Fire, Bayville (1893)
Forest Fire, Stump Tavern (1893)
Forest Fire, Bayville (1894)
Forest Fire, Whiting & Other Areas (1894)
Cranberry Bog Fire, West Creek (1894)
Forest Fire, Barnegat, Manchester & Tuckerton (1894)
Forest Fire, Jackson (1894)
Forest Fire, Toms River & Lakewood (1895)
Forest & House Fire, Waretown (1896)
Forest Fire, Tuckerton (1896)
Forest & Town Fire, Beachwood (1953)
Forest Fire Arson, South Toms River to Waretown along Parkway (1964)
Forest Fire, Eagleswood Firemen Deaths (1977)
Forest Fire, Barnegat (1981)
Forest Fire, Tuckerton (1982)
Hotel Fires
Albertson Hotel Fire, Mantoloking (1898)
Berkeley Arms Hotel, Seaside (1904)
Carpenters Hall Fire, Lakewood (1979)
College Inn Fire, Bayville (1931)
Edgewater Hotel Fire, Island Heights (1986)
Eno's Riverside Hotel, Forked River (1952)
Greyhound Inn Fire, Forked River (1957)
Hamilton Hotel, Seaside Heights (1968)
Hayden's Pinewald Villa Fire, Pinewald (1960)
Holiday House Fire, Island Heights (1973)
Hotel Allaben Fire, Lakewood (1976)
Hotel Hiawatha, Seaside Park (March 1931)
Hotel Leslie Fire, Lavallette (1914)
Hotel Light Fire Arson, Lakewood (1974)
Hotel Savoy Fire, Lakewood (1970)
Hotel Traymore Fire, Lakewood (1930)
Laffayette House, Forked River (1915?)
Lavallette Hotel (1934)
Laurel-in-the-Pines Fire, Lakewood (1964)
Lincoln Hotel Fire Deaths, Lakewood (1979)
Magahan Hotel Fire, Cedar Creek (1880)
Manhansset Hotel Fire, Seaside Park (1931)
Manhattan Hotel Fire, Lakewood (1973)
Mansion in the Pines Hotel Fire, Lakewood (1980)
Marion Inn Fatalities, Toms River (1961)
Maxson House Hotel Fire, Point Pleasant (1880)
Murray Grove Hotel Fire, Lacey (1955)
New Irvington Lodge Hotel Fire, Lakewood (1965)
Old Dover House Fire, Toms River (1879)
Ortley Inn Fire, Ortley Beach (1922)
Parry House Fire, Beach Haven (1881)
Patterson Hotel Fire, Burrsville (Brick) (1897)
People's Hotel Fire, Toms River (1854)
Pines Hotel Fire, Barnegat Park, Berkeley Township (1894)
Pinewood Hotel Fire, Lakewood (1969)
Riviera Hotel Fire, Toms River
Riverview Hotel Fire, Toms River (1965)
St. James Hotel Fire Death, Point Pleasant (1888)
Union House Hotel Fires, Waretown (1891)
Woodward Lodge Hotel Fire, Lakewood (1926)
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