Fire District #5 – Collings Lakes Volunteer Fire Department Station 12-3
600 Cains Mill Road
Collings Lakes, NJ 08094
(609) 561-9614
Fax: (609)561-0992
Bill Storck was the first Chief of the Dept. with Frank Rubbick acting as Asst. Chief and the first fire that the newly created Collings Lakes Vol. Fire Co. No. 1 responded to was Bill Storck’s own car, in which they drafted water from the creek next to the building to extinguish the fire. Bill Storck started his volunteer fire career at age 17 with the Ashland Fire Co. No. 1, now known as the Vorhees Fire Dept. Chief Storck had alot of equipment donated to the Collings Lakes Fire Dept. from the Ashland Fire Dept. Bill’s wife started the first Collings Lakes Vol. Fire Dept. Ladies Auxiliary, and other members’ wives joined in as well, working hard to help their brave Firemen. In fact one way some of the Ladies helped was acting as dispatchers. People in the town were given phone numbers to call and a total of three homes spread out in Collings Lakes were able to activate the siren atop the peak of the Firehouse, and had a list of phone numbers in which they would call Firemen and let them know of a fire, one of which was Asst. Chief Frank Rubbick’s wife, Helen. At that time couldn’t afford pagers or radios, until a few years later, the Dept. purchased it’s first radio for Engine 23-1 and Elizabeth Bowers had the dispatch radio and was the acting dispatcher for the Collings Lakes Fire Dept. And the rest was ….. History!
Chief: William Donnelly
Deputy Chief: William Collins
Captain: Al Valentino
Captain: Tom Tress
Lieutenant: Keith Harvey
Lieutenant: John Knapp
Commissioners:
Kenneth Metzler
Rebecca Capriotti
William A. Collins
Dave Woodward
Cindy Moriarity
Firefighters:
Dave Achey
Shane Backer
Jim Brown
Dave Blair
Dave Booth
Rebecca Collins
Bill Collins
William Donnelly
William Donnelly, Jr.
Keith Dorris
Shawn Holman
John Knapp
Jesse Goldy
Ken Metzler
John O’Connor
Steve Rabchuk
Bob Read
David Riley
Frank Russo
Christian Santos
Dan Santos
Ryan Sheff
Bill Sherman
Josh Olive
Kyle Smith
Jerry Sutts
Tom Thress
Al Valentino
Equipment:
Command Car 12-30
Tender 12-34
Engine 12-31
Engine 12-32
Brush 12-35
Quint 12-36
Rescue 12-38
Station Car 12-39
Air support 12-3
Marine 12-3
BLS Ambulance 12-81
BLS Ambulance 12-82