Fanwood Rescue was on standby today June 2, 2019 with our friends Garwood First Aid Squad for Garwood Rocks 2019!! It was a beautiful day and so much fun! Thank you to Garwood FAS for inviting us and Mountainside FAS!

Fanwood Rescue joined many others at the Memorial Day Service and the Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 27, 2019. It was beautiful weather outside for the annual parade honoring those who gave their lives in the name of our freedom. Fanwood Rescue members and their family members turned out for the parade.

This year was very special as we had Ethan and Abigail Breidenstein holding up the rescue squad banner during the parade! Ethan and Abigail are children of Eric Breidenstein, who is a member as well as his mother Recording Secretary Jamie Pedinoff. A tradition was passed down as Jamie’s kids Eric and his sister Allison used to hold the banner during the parades and was passed down to Eric’s children this year!

We appreciate everyone and all our members who came out today in support of Memorial Day and helped us all honor those who have fallen and paid the ultimate sacrifice for all of us and our freedom.

Thank you to the members that came for the Memorial Service and Parade, President Ed Winsor, Recording Secretary Jamie Pedinoff, Corresponding Secretary Lisa Walker, Captain Patricia Buckridee, Sergeant Shreya Kachroo, Training Officer Christina O’Connor, Eric Breidenstein, Jim Drewes, Lily Hsaio, Tyler Zeile, and Rafael Eulalio!

The Fanwood Rescue Squad is proud to name Eric Breidenstein as the recipient of this year’s EMS excellence award at the Overlook Medical Center EMS Dinner on May 23rd held at the Galloping Hill Golf Course, Kenilworth, NJ.

“The officers and members of the Fanwood Rescue Squad take great delight in recognizing Eric Bridenstein for the 2019 Overlook Award of Excellence. Eric joined the Fanwood Rescue Squad in 1996, at the age of 17, which made him our youngest member at the time and in the memory of the squad and one of our first second-generation members (his mother Jaime joined in 1985 and was last year’s Overlook award recipient). Eric has answered 1490 calls during his 23 years on the squad.

Eric has always been one of our most enthusiastic members, and despite moving out of state in 2004, he continues to respond actively while visiting family in NJ. He has come all the way from Indiana for rescue squad events, showing his dedication to the squad.

We have all learned a great deal from Eric, and as the first younger member to join the squad in our institutional memory, he paved the way for all of us who joined the squad in our youth, after him. It is long overdue that he be recognized for his dedication to the Fanwood Rescue Squad, and our community. Please join me in congratulating him for this honor.” – President Ed Winsor in his speech at the Overlook EMS Dinner, awarding Eric with the EMS Excellence Award