Service To The Community
BVAC has an active membership of approximately 50 volunteers and a cadet program for Bergenfield residents who are high school students at least 16 years old. Our members are physicians, business professionals, nurses, paramedics, police officers, college students and more. Every active member of BVAC is a licensed Emergency Medical Technician.
Did You Know?
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BVAC's average response time in 2023 was 3 mins 23 secs.
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BVAC was the first municipal volunteer EMS agency in NJ to carry and administer nebulized albuterol.
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Every crew has at least two fully trained EMTs.
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BVAC has a QA/QI program and annual competency evaluations to keep skills sharp.
Apparatus
2016 Horton Type III ambulance on a Ford chassis
2009 Horton Type III ambulance on a Ford chassis
2005 Horton medium-duty ambulance on an International chassis.
2000 Horton Type III ambulance on a Ford chassis
Chevrolet Tahoe non-transport quick response vehicle
Used for first response, rehab, Rescue Task Force, and MCIs.
Members
Executive Board
President - Melissa Naylis, EMT
Vice President - Max Farkas, EMT
Treasurer - Cecilia Wahl, EMT
Recording Secretary - Kerry Schade, EMT
Financial Secretary - Bruce Kessler, EMT
Membership Secretary - Lora Schade, EMT
Line Officers
Chief - Ryan Shell, EMT
Deputy Chief - Ahmos Silvera, EMT
1st Lieutenant - Efraim Rudin, EMT
2nd Lieutenant - Daniel Yaakov Fuksbrumer, EMT
Active Members
Ed Abramovitz, EMT
Michoel Adler, EMT
Rafi Ahmed, EMT
Eve Bae, EMT
Leeba Bernstein, EMT
Binyamin Bressel, EMT
Yoni Celnik, EMT
Yossi Cohn, EMT
Yehudah Farkas, EMT
Max Farkas, EMT
Nathaniel Francisco, EMT
Bradley Freeman, EMT
Daniel Yakov Fuksbrumer, EMT
Dovie Hirsch, EMT
Mark Infield, EMT(I)
Ashlee Juarez, EMT
Lojan Kandil, EMT
Shayna Karlin, EMT
Bruce Kessler, EMT
Maytal Kessler, EMT
Shalom Korn, EMT
Aryeh Lejtman, EMT
Avi Levenbrown, EMT
Naftali Levenbrown, EMT
Ralph Lewie Jr., EMT *
Dovid Lisker, EMT
Josh Loewenstein, EMT
Jeffrey Mathew, EMT
Aaron Mallin, EMT
Jennie Mazzilli, EMT
Victor Mendoza, EMT
Laura Munoz, EMT
Melissa Naylis, EMT
Antoinette Nabukenya, EMT
Anjana Prakasam, EMT
Steven Rand, EMT
Ariel Retter, EMT
Katie Rolik, EMT
Carly Rosenblatt, EMT
Yitzi Rosenbluth, EMT
Efraim Rudin, EMT
Yoni Safier, EMT
Caroline Schade, EMT
Kerry Schade, EMT
Lora Schade, EMT *^
Shimmy Schwarcz, EMT
Keren Schwartzman, EMT
Joseph Segal, EMT
Divyash Shah, EMT
Ryan Shell, EMT *
Chana Shields, EMT
Ahmos Silvera, EMT *
Naftali Silvera, EMT
Sim Singh, EMT
Jacob Stromer, EMT *
Perry Sulich, EMT ^
Peter Torpie, EMT
Yoel Varnai. EMT
Cecilia Wahl, EMT
David Weinberger, EMT
Neal Wigod, EMT
Irving Zafra, EMT
Reserve Members
Abigail Cooper, EMT
Ezra Finkelstein, EMT
Shimmie Katz, EMT
Edward J. Kneisler III, EMR
Christopher Naylis, EMR
Gerard Naylis, EMR
​Nancy Naylis, EMR
Steven Naylis, EMR
David Oldewurtel, EMT
Kevin Schade, EMR
Life Members
Nadine Allen
Brian Andrews
Larry Antebi #
Razelle Balota
Frank Burke
Raymond Callahan #
Margaret Casper
John Casper ^
Richard Cirelli *
Michael DiRienzo
Patricia Drum-Greaves
James Dunn #
Sandra Eckardt ^#
Erin Frino
John Fuhrman #
Martin Fullgrabe #
Bennett Goldstein
Laura Goldstein-Swift
William Goodell ^
William Gormley *
Elaine Groezinger
Rolf Hohloch
Debbie Hughes *
Wasay Hussain
Martin Isler ^
Scott Janssens
Anne Marie Joyce
Robert E. Kirsch *
Cindy K. Kneisler
Edward Kneisler II *^#
Edward Kneisler Jr. #
Adele Macris ^
Corey Mahon
Craig Mahon
James McLoone ^#
Neil McCaffrey #
Pam McPhail ^
Gerard Naylis
Nancy Naylis
Katherine Nolan
Matthew Notorangelo
John Pampaloni Jr.
Alan Rabinowitz
Ian Rabinowitz
Katie Rolik
Thomas Rose *
George Rosein #
John Rube #
Edgardo Sadang
Joseph Scherb #
John Schmidt #
Richard Silvia
Sean Sullivan *
John Switzer
Jerillyn Switzer *
William Tyrell
Clifford Wallum #
Ellen Wheatley #
* = Past Chief/Captain
^ = Past President
# = Deceased