KJ Fire Dept Helping Their Neighbor

 

Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY - Kiryas Joel Fire Department joined the network of Mutual Aid this week, (in which neighboring departments help each other out).

 

In a memo sent last week to Orange County fire departments to welcome Kiryas Joel, David Hoffman, the county official who oversees those companies, stressed the other ways in which Kiryas Joel firefighters can help their comrades.
He wrote: "With the exception of not having interior firefighting capabilities and availability on religious holidays, they can provide Mutual Aid in all other aspects, such as but not limited to exterior firefighting capabilities, scene support operations, water supply, extrication, etc."

 

But how often they're called to help their neighbors remains to be seen, given lingering concerns about their inability to rush into burning buildings - a dangerous duty that demands the utmost trust among firefighters.