MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the New Jersey State FMBA is to educate, involve, and affect those civilians who reside and work in New Jersey to adopt fire safety practices and procedures that prevent and mitigate human and economic losses arising from the devastating effects of fire.
The New Jersey State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association was first organized and established on December 11, 1897, at the first annual convention held in Jersey City, NJ. At that seemingly uneventful gathering, whereupon only six original member locals: Jersey City, Paterson, Hoboken, Newark, Trenton and Camden, united to incorporate under the banner of the New Jersey State FMBA, birth was given to a new era in the history of the career fire service in New Jersey. In retrospect, it is, at best difficult, to estimate if our founding fathers possessed full awareness of the time enduring significance and the tremendous positive impact this organization was destined to have upon its members, their families and the general public throughout the decades to follow. Given that particularly industrious point of our society’s growth and development, the time was prefect to organize such an association. And organize they did. By 1907, less than a decade from its inception, local membership doubled from six to twelve locals, with total membership increasing to 1,157. Today with 107 Fire, EMS, and Dispatcher locals on its roster, the New Jersey State Firemens Mutual Benevolent Association proudly maintains an active membership of over 5,000 career personnel.
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Recently my family found an old FMBA member card from 1942 that was my great grandfathers, no one knew that he was a career firefighter. We are trying to find out where and how long he was in the FMBA. If there any records please let me know thanks!
I AM HOPING YOU CAN HELP ME OUT WITH A PROJECT I AM DOING, I AM TRYING TO BUILD A COLLECTION OF UNION AND TRAINING CENTRE PINS FROM ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, I STARTED WITH THREE UNION PINS AND AT THIS POINT I HAVE GATHERED ABOUT 150 PINS. WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SEND ME A CURRENT PIN OR ANY OLD PINS FOR MY DISPLAY? I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR ANY TRAINING CENTRE PINS, AND ANY UNION PINS THAT ARE BIT DIFFERENT. AS AN EXAMPLE, I HAVE ONE FROM THE UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION IN THE SHAPE OF A MOSQUITO.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL AT 1-204-417-6739 OR AT
RICHARD VELEY
210-170 HARGRAVE STREET
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, R3C 3H4
OR [email protected]
Thank you
I’m looking to get new FMBA license plates, I see the instructions on how to obtain them, but do not see the download application.
Can you please email it to me?
Thank you.
I have been assigned to do a story about stress and PTSD among female firefighters. A University of Houston study finds female firefighters are more likely to contemplate suicide or suffer from PTSD. I would like to do a short, (5 minutes or less), recorded, over the phone interview w/you about this. But I am on deadline. Please call me ASAP at 800 388 6397.
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