With respect to fire and fire-related activities, except those
responsibilities now or hereafter designated by state law or regulation,
or by local ordinance for the Chief, and Director of Emergency Services
(Fire Director), Fire Supervisor (Lieutenant) and/or Fire Inspector,
if applicable, his successors in the chain of command as set forth
herein, in all cases shall have the sole and absolute control and
command over all persons attached to the Department, and he/she shall
direct their operations at all fires and fire-related emergencies
so as most effectively to prevent the destruction of life and property.
In the absence of the Chief, or Director of Emergency Services, his
or her successors in the chain of command as set forth herein shall
take prompt and efficient measures and use the means of the Department
to extinguish the same and shall also have the sole and absolute control
over all the apparatus of the Department and over all persons aiding
or assisting in the Department in such cases. In all cases as per
State of New Jersey Incident Management System, the first arriving
emergency resource (command car, engine, officer, career personnel,
etc.) shall initiate the IMS by formally establishing command and
shall continue in command until properly relieved or may elect to
pass command to another member who meets NJ State I.M.L. Level 1 certifications.
The Chief and/or Fire Supervisor shall keep a record of all
alarms of fire within the Borough, and forward them monthly to the
Director of Emergency Services (Fire Director) with a description
of the property damaged or destroyed and at a regular meeting of the
Borough Council in the month of August in each year, or have all reports
and information turned over to the Borough Administrator for the Council
meeting. The report should provide the number of alarms of fire and
the number of fires which have occurred during the preceding year,
the amount of loss by fire as near as can be ascertained and also
the condition of the fire house and apparatus with such recommendations
as he may deem necessary and proper.
All ordinances and resolutions, or part thereof, inconsistent
with this chapter are hereby repealed.
If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause or provision
of this chapter shall be judged by the Courts to be invalid, such
adjudication shall apply only to this section, paragraph, subsection,
clause or provision so adjudged and the remainder of this chapter
shall be valid and enforceable.
This chapter shall take effect upon final adoption and publication
as required by law.