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Dunellen Defender Fire Company #1

1 day ago

Thank you to everyone who came out to the car show today! It was an amazing time and we are very grateful for the outpouring of support from everyone in attendance. Thank you Street Dreams Car Club-NJ for setting up an amazing event and the generous donation of the raffle trophy money! Legendary Muscle Cars Auto Club, thank you for your donation and your kind words! We look forward to seeing everyone again next year! ... See MoreSee Less

Thank you to everyone who came out to the car show today! It was an amazing time and we are very grateful for the outpouring of support from everyone in attendance. Thank you Street Dreams Car Club-NJ for setting up an amazing event and the generous donation of the raffle trophy money! Legendary Muscle Cars Auto Club, thank you for your donation and your kind words! We look forward to seeing everyone again next year!

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Dunellen Defender Fire Company #1

6 days ago

We appreciate everyone's concern and well wishes following the fire at our firehouse today. We also appreciate the offers to assist with a GoFundMe or other donations to help us after this terrible fire we had. At this time we are having our insurance adjusters come in to make assessments of the amount of damage costs as well as insurance coverage amounts that we will be receiving. We ask that you hold your donations and think of us when we have our fundraiser letters come out in a few weeks for our normal fund drive. If, at a time in the future, we find we are in financial straits due to the fire and have a gap in what we have to repair/replace versus our coverage we may reach out for specific fundraising for help with the building. Again we thank you for your concern and your dedication to your local fire department. #miraclemile #dunellenstrong ... See MoreSee Less

We appreciate everyones concern and well wishes following the fire at our firehouse today. We also appreciate the offers to assist with a GoFundMe or other donations to help us after this terrible fire we had. At this time we are having our insurance adjusters come in to make assessments of the amount of damage costs as well as insurance coverage amounts that we will be receiving. We ask that you hold your donations and think of us when we have our fundraiser letters come out in a few weeks for our normal fund drive. If, at a time in the future, we find we are in financial straits due to the fire and have a gap in what we have to repair/replace versus our coverage we may reach out for specific fundraising for help with the building. Again we thank you for your concern and your dedication to your local fire department. #miraclemile #dunellenstrong

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Sorry for your loss, we went thru the same thing in April. Ours hearts are with you thru the months ahead

You are in our prayers!!!

sending prayers your way. good luck with adjusters 🙏🏼

I was working next door today. And our car show was originally a fund raising for the fire department

Good luck to you. Hopefully you will come out of this better and stronger. 👍🙏🇺🇲

Prayers God bless-you and all do for Dunellen!!!

Sending prayers for you brothers and sisters my God take this tradgety and turn it around

What oh wow everyone ok DFD stay strong.

Prayers

Sending prayer to you all from your brothers and sisters from clay county Indiana.

Ron Fusco Senior read this!!

When did this happen??? Yesterday there were lots of sirens in Middlesex. Wondering if that is where they were going to. Stay safe.

Dose any one know if they saved the antique fire truck and prayers that your department will get through this

Stay strong. You will get through this faster then imagined.

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Dunellen Defender Fire Company #1

6 days ago

Statement from Mayor Jason F. Cilento
Dunellen Fire Department Fire
October 12, 2021

It is with sadness that I write this notification to inform you that this afternoon the Dunellen Fire Department suffered significant loss to their Fire House. The Borough is still assessing the damage and an investigation by the Middlesex County Fire Marshall’s Office will be conducted to determine the cause of the fire. Thankfully, there have been no reported injuries to those involved in fighting today’s fire.

Dunellen is thankful to the members of the Dunellen Fire Department, Dunellen Police Department, the Dunellen Rescue Squad, Dunellen OEM, and all the first responders from the surrounding communities who assisted as mutual aid. Over the next several weeks, as we continue our assessment and restore the Fire House and everything in it, the Borough of Dunellen will be covered by mutual aid from neighboring departments, and this will ensure the safety and protection of our residents and businesses should another incident occur in the borough. We are a strong community but our friendships and partnerships with our neighbors make us even stronger. We thank them for that.

As the Borough of Dunellen and the Dunellen Defender Fire Company #1 works with the insurance companies to assess and claim the damages to the structure of the building, apparatuses, and equipment, please consider donating to the Dunellen Defender Fire Company No 1. People have already begun asking how they may assist and right now the most direct way to help is to contribute to the non-profit side of the organization. Checks should be made payable to the Dunellen Defender Fire Company No. 1 and donations that normally would have been mailed to the Fire House may be mailed to Borough Hall at: Dunellen Defender Fire Company No. 1, 355 North Avenue, Dunellen, NJ 08812.

The Borough of Dunellen will work assiduously to return the volunteers of the Dunellen Fire Department back to their rightful home at 231 South Madison Avenue. These men and women have given so much to our community and we are here to support them. We will continue to keep the public updated on the progress of the department and its membership and any plans on how as a community we can come together to support them. As we inspected the scene today, what struck me the most out of all this sad news, was the image of the American Flag standing untouched inside the smoke damaged bay of the Fire House. At that moment, it signified not just a national symbol for our country, but the strength and determination of our men and women who serve and protect us. We are Dunellen Strong, and we will come back from this, and we will be stronger from this. We are the Miracle Mile and the Miracle Mile Means Community.

Thank you for your time in this matter.

Yours very truly,
Jason F. Cilento, Mayor
Borough of Dunellen
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From the picture it dose not look to bad glad everyone is ok

Das hatten wir auch vor ein paar Wochen. Kopf hoch das schafft ihr. Liebe Grüße aus Germany

So when are we gonna do firefighter night at 8 on the break and sweat shirt collaboration ? When are we gonna get a decent size donation to do a Engine in the quick check colors? Let seriously think about this situation and get the whole Town involved. Christmas tree Lighting carnival benefiting them at Washington?