OCEAN GATE – No one was injured after a fire broke out at a house at 201 Narragansett Avenue.
The fire was reported at around 1:30 p.m. on January 16, Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said. The cause is still under investigation.
The Ocean Gate Fire Company posted on social media they were surprised that the county dispatch didn’t contact them, and Bayville Fire Company was called instead. That neighborhood is on the border of Ocean Gate and Berkeley. They said they had found out about the fire through social media.
“Please know, the Ocean Gate Fire Department was never notified nor dispatched for this emergency by the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center even though the address of the residence is within the town limits of the Borough of Ocean Gate. We are making inquiries into why this occurred with the Dispatch Center and working to make sure this does not occur again in the future. We are also looking into why we were not dispatched to the scene upon confirmation of the address by emergency personnel upon arrival.
“The residents of Ocean Gate deserve to know why two pieces of Ocean Gate apparatus remained in quarters less than a mile from the residence while equipment and firefighters from three or more outside departments responded to our town from further away,” they said.
Mastronardy said that the GIS (geographic information system) that dispatchers rely on clocked that location as being in Berkeley Township instead of Ocean Gate. Fortunately, Bayville had a fire truck nearby that had just finished a call for a gas leak in the area, so they were able to respond quickly.
The sheriff met with chiefs from Ocean Gate and Bayville the following day to work it out. He said that the GIS system will be updated so that Narragansett and the surrounding streets will dispatch to the appropriate companies.
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