Congratulations Firefighters

Following 400 hours of training at the Fire Academy at the Ocean County Training Center, Waretown, 32 men and women received their respective volunteer fire company badge during graduation ceremonies on May 20. Deputy Ocean County Fire Marshal Robert Cook, who has served in the fire service for more than four decades gave the keynote address. Deputy Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners Gary Quinn congratulated the new firefighters on completing the academy training on behalf of all of the Commissioners. “As you receive the badge of your fire company tonight, don’t look at this occasion as the conclusion of your training but as the beginning of yet another step in moving forward as a firefighter,” Quinn said. “All of you here this evening completed firefighter one and two training. We encourage all of you to come back to our facility and take advantage of the continuing firefighter education courses that are offered.” The following is a list of graduates and their respective fire companies: Sean H. Ayers and Antonio Jon Ferraro, Mystic Island Volunteer Fire Company; Dylan J. Batzel, Ridgeway Volunteer Fire Company; Patricia M. Bayham, West Tuckerton Volunteer Fire Company; Hunter James Bello, Ryan M. McClellan and Robert J. Trotta, Jr., Stafford Township Volunteer Fire Company; Richard H. Cliff, III, Jonathan R. Reynolds and Robert John Sawicki, III, Barnegat Township Volunteer Fire Company; Christopher C. Corso, Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Company; Jolee Lynn Costa, Waretown Volunteer Fire Company; Nicholas B. DiDolce, Pinewald Pioneer Volunteer Fire Company; Lucas R. Donahue, Bayville Volunteer Fire Company; Ryan J. Giliberti, Cassville Volunteer Fire Company; Alexander E. Glen, Point Pleasant Beach Volunteer Fire Company; Nathan Michael Headley, Eagleswood Township Volunteer Fire Company; Kyla Paige Herbert, Manchester Township Volunteer Fire Company; Nikolas Wade Juliano, Lanoka Harbor Volunteer Fire Company; Anthony Madrigal and Matthew V. Pelcher, Pine Beach Volunteer Fire Company; Justin Michael Moore, Manitou Park Volunteer Fire Company; Vincent C. O’Donnell, Seaside Park Volunteer Fire Company; Stella Roworth and Maddox Ash Samaritano, Point Pleasant Volunteer Fire Company; Raymond Thomas Sinton, Lakehurst Volunteer Fire Company; Theodore N. Slahetka, Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Company; Alison Smith, Beachwood Volunteer Fire Company; Kasey Taylor Thievon, Seaside Park Volunteer Fire Company; Timothy R. Viereck, Jr., Woodland Volunteer Fire Company; William P. White, Bay Head Volunteer Fire Company, and John R. Zurawski, Herbertsville Volunteer Fire Company.