Hillsborough Bureau of Fire & Safety

Hillsborough, NJ

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The Hillsborough Bureau of Fire Safety has an extensive public education program to spread the message of fire safety throughout our community. Annually our Fire Marshals educate nearly 5000 children at both public and private schools. The school programs cover the basics like "stop drop and roll" for the younger children to campus and cooking safety for the high school senior class. We also conduct a number of programs for adults as well. Some of these programs include fire safety for senior citizens, conducting fire extinguisher training for local businesses and attending community events. Our department is always trying to find creative new ways to get our message out to the community. We recently started hanging banners with safety messages at our local sports complexes and have hit the big screen with fire prevention tips showing on the screen before the movies start at a local cinema. Social media has also become a large part of our education program, our office is a "Check In" point on Foursquare and operate pages on both Twitter and Facebook. Another part of our fire safety education unit is the fire prevention smoke trailer. This interactive educational tool is used at community events to show fire hazards and teach how to escape a burning home. The trailer is set up like a residential house with a kitchen, living room and bedroom. The unit features heated doors, a working telephone to practice 911 calls, a fire place, working smoke alarms and a smoke machine. If you would like to have us attend your community event or have any questions our about fire safety please contact us (908) 369-4313 ext. 7178 or firesafety@htfd.us

Fire Safety Banners at the sports complexes.

Fire Safety at school.

Fire Safety at summer camp.

Fire Safety Smoke Trailer.

Inside the Smoke Trailer kitchen showing multiple fire hazards.

Participants learn to crawl low under smoke and heat.

Fire Safety at the movies.

Children learning not to be scared of firefighters in gear.

Learning about the fire trucks.

Trailer shows how to exit out to both windows and doors.

Simulated fire place with smoke.

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Hillsborough Township Fire District
17 hours ago
Hillsborough Township Fire District

Let’s go on another adventure with Fire Marshal Dave as he plans and inspects another new community opening soon to Hillsborough.

Part of the process prior to today, Dave has joined in on several planning meetings with the Construction Site Manager as well as other agencies such as Fire sub code, engineers, and the building department. Within those meetings, all agencies bring their input to meet codes, promote safety, and make the new neighborhood pleasing to the eye. As the construction goes along visits happen by these different departments to ensure work is going as planned, and if things need slight tweaks, now is the time to make those changes.

Today, Dave and our firehouse staff visited the construction site to plan for where Fire Department signage will be placed, review the layout of the apartments, and make sure that the landscaping doesn’t interfere with us navigating the neighborhood with our big fire trucks!

We ran into minor issues and with the rapport that Dave has built over time with the Manager, he was very receptive and knows that we are looking out for everyone’s safety, and will have the issues fixed in no time! Just another day in the life of a Fire Marshal!

#FireMarshalPlanning #ConcordofHillsborough #firemarshallbill #hillsboroughnj #ConstructionFireSafety
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Let’s go on another adventure with Fire Marshal Dave as he plans and inspects another new community opening soon to Hillsborough. 

Part of the process prior to today, Dave has joined in on several planning meetings with the Construction Site Manager as well as other agencies such as Fire sub code, engineers, and the building department. Within those meetings, all agencies bring their input to meet codes, promote safety, and make the new neighborhood pleasing to the eye. As the construction goes along visits happen by these different departments to ensure work is going as planned, and if things need slight tweaks, now is the time to make those changes.

Today, Dave and our firehouse staff visited the construction site to plan for where Fire Department signage will be placed, review the layout of the apartments, and make sure that the landscaping doesn’t interfere with us navigating the neighborhood with our big fire trucks!

We ran into minor issues and with the rapport that Dave has built over time with the Manager, he was very receptive and knows that we are looking out for everyone’s safety, and will have the issues fixed in no time! Just another day in the life of a Fire Marshal!

#FireMarshalPlanning #ConcordofHillsborough #firemarshallbill #hillsboroughnj #ConstructionFireSafetyImage attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment
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Hillsborough Township Fire District
2 days ago
Hillsborough Township Fire District

Still some haze hanging as air quality is worse today than yesterday. Stay inside if you are able.

Also note we are still in Stage 3 restrictions for brush and wildfires. Always stay safe and be vigilant about disposing cigarettes and ash.
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Still some haze hanging as air quality is worse today than yesterday. Stay inside if you are able.

Also note we are still in Stage 3 restrictions for brush and wildfires. Always stay safe and be vigilant about disposing cigarettes and ash.
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Hillsborough Township Fire District
3 days ago
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While trying to prevent our own brush and wildfires, there have been lots of smoke detected in areas nearby. It’s from Canada, due to wind directions, the smoke has banked down in our area. Please be patient with our dispatchers and fire companies as they sort through calls that are just smells of smoke vs. calls where flames are seen. ... See MoreSee Less

While trying to prevent our own brush and wildfires, there have been lots of smoke detected in areas nearby. It’s from Canada, due to wind directions, the smoke has banked down in our area. Please be patient with our dispatchers and fire companies as they sort through calls that are just smells of smoke vs. calls where flames are seen.
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379 S Branch Rd
Hillsborough, NJ 08844

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