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138 Washington Street, Belleplain, NJ 08270
Toll Free: 888-861-0470
Phone: (609) 861-5250
Fax: (609) 861-1726
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Web Site: www.BelleplainEmergencyCorp.org
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"History Of The Belleplain Emergency Corps"

On January 5, 1957 the squad applied for a certification of incorporation, for the transportation of the sick and injured, as the Belleplain Emergency Corps. A Certificate of Incorporation was issued on February 5, 1957 by the State of New Jersey.

December 29, 1958 the squads second ambulance was purchased to replace the first used ambulance. It was a 1950 Buick Ambulance.

March 12 1959, at a squad meeting it was announced that anyone wishing to attend a optional first aid course it would be from 6:00PM to 7:00 PM for 16 weeks.

August 18, 1960 the squad purchased the property where the squad building is now located.

August 21, 1962 Squad building was completed with funding from selling certificates for concrete blocks for $1.00 each and a mortgage from the First National Bank of Millville.

July 28, 1964, Phil franklin donated the squads first oxygen tank.

February 2, 1967 the ambulance building gets two toilets installed and a ceiling.

September 12, 1967 the squad trades the old ambulance to Socky Hess for $100 worth of gasoline and oil.

January 9, 1970 the squad joins the New Jersey State First Aid Council, Seventh District. (We are still members in good standing.)

January 10, 1970 it was decided to let Woodbine Police take ambulance phone calls.


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October 13, 1970 new C.B. radio installed in ambulance. Squad building gets a kitchen.

June 14, 1973 the squad purchased a 1966 Cadillac Ambulance to replace the 1950 Buick.

January 14, 1974 the squad adopts the Five Points training program from the New Jersey State First Aid Council as the accepted standard of care and urged all members who ran on the ambulance to take this course. Pt. 1, American red cross Advanced First Aid, 40 hr., Pt. 2, C.P.R., Pt. 3, vehicle Extrication, Pt. 4, Childbirth and Pt. 5, Oxygen Administration.

January 14, 1974 squad building gets a phone.

July 9, 1974 ambulance gets a VHF radio with capabilities to talk to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital.

July 9, 1974 junior squad was started.

October 8, 1974 Dispatching with Woodbine fell through due to problems.

January 14, 1975 squad starts it's own dispatch. Althea Bachelor gets a phone and radio in her home. Members were called by phone to go on ambulance runs. (If she was home the system worked well. If she wasn't, you had to find a squad member to get the ambulance.)

February 3, 1976 the squad had a junk drive to sell scrap metal as a fund raiser.

September 1, 1982 the local Seven Day Adventist School moved into the squad building in trade for starting the ambulance daily and paying the utility bills.

July 31, 1984 the Seven Day Adventist School moved out of the squad building to make room for a additional ambulance.

September 3, 1984 the squad purchased a 1973 Cadillac Ambulance from the Stone Harbor Rescue Squad. It was decided to also keep the 1966 Cadillac Ambulance as a back-up rig.

November 14, 1984, it was recommended by Bill King that a better dispatch system must be set up. Five phones were set up in different locations. phone 1 in the squad building, phone 2 at Roger Forss Painting's office, phone 3 a the King residence, phone 4 at the Tozer residence and phone 5 at the Leading residence. All these locations also were equipped with VHF radios to talk with the ambulance. One phone was always manned and volunteer dispatcher worked out their own schedule. Weekends were sometimes covered by community service or Greenthumb workers. Note: The most ambulance runs the squad had to this date was 42 per year.

October 5, 1985 the squad purchased a 1978 Chevy truck Type 1 Ambulance from Professional Ambulance Sales to replace the 1965 Cadillac.

February 12, 1986 the squad purchased a 1980 Ford truck Type 1 Ambulance from the Upper Township Rescue Squad to replace the 1973 Cadillac.

June 10, 1987 the squad adopts the policy that all active members must be currently Certified by the New Jersey Department of Health as Emergency Medical Technicians to be allowed to run on the Ambulance.

January 1, 1989 one full time EMT is hired for daytime coverage who met volunteers on location of call.

April 12, 1989 two part-time EMTs are hired to run with the other paid EMT.

June 3, 1990 Dennis Township purchases a 1989 Ford/Braun Type 3 Ambulance.

October 2, 1991 squads Certificate of Need applied and granted from the New Jersey Department of Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services along with a Probationary License to operate as a Emergency Ambulance Provider.

January 1, 1992 the squad issued a Provider License for Emergency Medical Services. As part of this license the squad appoints W. King Sr. as full time administrator.

January 1, 1993 the Office of Emergency Medical Services extends the squads license to provide invalid Coach Services.

April 3 1996 the squad takes delivery of two Ford/AEV Type 2 Two Ambulance, $65,000 donated by Dennis Township with the remainder paid by the squad.

May 19, 1997 the squad consists and operates with:

  • 26 members (20 EMTs, 3 EMT trainees and 3 PATS) (23 of these are volunteers) (7 are also full-time employees, 6 are part-time or PRN).
  • 3 Emergency Ambulances (all are inspected yearly by the New Jersey Department of Health OEMS).
  • 4 Invalid Coaches (all are inspected yearly by the New Jersey Department of Health).
  • 1 Medical car (used for non Medicare or Medicaid transportation and general office use).
Response times are now 4 to 11 minutes depending on the area of the call either daytime or night.
We currently teach CPR, First Aid, First Responder, EMT, Water Safety, and Lifeguard throughout the year.

November 23, 2002 our 7 bay ambulance garage was completed and ambulance was housed.

May 12, 2004 our remodeled property (the old Wheaton's Store) was put into operation as our communications building with a new state of the arts computer system with a Ram Dispatching program.

June 4, 2004 squad purchases:

  • 3 domain names (belleplainemergencycorp.org, belleplainemergencycorp.com and belleplainemergencycorp.net) for two years each.
  • 2 years of hosting for the 3 domain names (which includes all email accounts for the squad).
  • Web Site Development services from Power Of Production Studio.

June 28, 2004 Email accounts (16) configured on computers.

July 1, 2004 new web site "www.BelleplainEmergencyCorp.org" goes live on the Internet.

August 3, 2004, our New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services License was upgraded to provide Specialty care Transport (providing Advance Life Support Care for critical care inter hospital transports).

November 1, 2004, Current staff consists of 65 full-time employees. 31 Emergency Medical Technicians, 20 Passenger Assistance technicians and Mobility Assistance Vehicle technicians, 3 Medical Car Drivers, 9 Office Support personnel (dispatcher and billing). 2 Mechanics.

January 12, 2007, Began operations as Township & Woodbine 911 center (we are the only non-governmental PSAP & PSDP in the State of New Jersey).


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