Every year, the day after thanksgiving, our cadets and the Boy Scouts host a blood drive. This year the blood drive was very successful and the cadets had a great time helping the community! Thank you to everyone who came out and donated!!

The Berkeley Heights Volunteer Cadets have teamed up with Backpacks For Like, a non-profit organization that provides daily essentials to homeless veterans. The Cadets are looking for donations of toiletries that can be dropped off at any of the locations described in the flyer below. Also, a donation of $25 can send one full backpack to a homeless veteran in need. See flyer for more details. Thank you for your support!

Every month, the squad focuses on a different aspect of our work for a training session. Usually, these trainings focus on a particular skill/ set of skills or type of call we may encounter, but this past month we focused on stress management and how to help each other out after a tough call. The Caring Contact recently started a class specifically for first responders and the BHVRS was the first squad to participate. They put on an excellent class and it was a great way to learn about helping each other when things get difficult and also helping our patients during some of the worst days of their lives. Thank you very much Caring Contact for teaching us about this incredibly important aspect of our job!

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We had the best time at BHPD’s trunk or treat!! Everyone had amazing costumes on and we had so much fun spending time with the community! We hope everyone has a safe and happy halloween!!

Two seventh graders from Columbia School met our crew at the squad with cookies and a very nice Thank You for your Service card. We want to extend a huge thank you to Victoria and Vivian, and their nanny Melanie for taking the time out of their day to come stop by and thank us for our service. We love serving our community and little things like this make it even more worthwhile!

Our 1st lieutenant, Joe Plocinski, and a cadet member, Nicole Segalini, spoke at Westminster Presbyterian church about joining the squad and what it meant to them personally. We are always looking for more members, so if you have any interest please reach out for more information!

The squad was on standby at the BH5K. We had a great time being out with the community to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 5k! The BHVRS was also presented with a very generous donation from Dr. Pat Smith, thank you so much for your support!

Today, we remember the lives lost during 9/11 and the sacrifice that many of our brothers and sisters made that day. We will never forget.

We would like to extend a very big thank you to Feathers II for their very generous donation to the BHVRS! We hope that you are very successful in your new location! Thank you, again, for your generosity!

Another Mount Carmel Feast in the books! We hope everyone had a safe night last night, and had as great a night as we did! A very big thank you to all of the squads that came in to help us take care of everyone that came in to enjoy the fair!