Wall Community First Aid Squad

What Wall Community First Aid Squad does

Wall Community First Aid Squad (WCFAS) is a volunteer non-profit emergency medical services organization founded on November 15, 1960, that provides 24/7 emergency medical response and community safety training to the residents and visitors of Wall Township, New Jersey. The organization operates from a single headquarters at 1417 Lakewood Road in Manasquan (lot donated by the Wall Township Committee) and is staffed entirely by volunteers, with no prior experience required for membership and training costs covered through the New Jersey Training Fund. The squad fields two fully equipped ambulances and a first responder vehicle, conducts Search and Rescue operations in coordination with South Wall Fire Rescue and the Wall Police Department, and runs a Junior Membership Program for volunteers aged 16 and above alongside a 2026-launched member scholarship supporting members pursuing medical careers.

WCFAS extends beyond emergency response into training and community engagement, delivering a 2026 CPR Training Tour across all four Wall Township Elementary Schools, providing Trauma First Aid Training to cadets at the NJ Youth Challenge Academy, and offering Stop the Bleed and similar instruction. The organization also supplies EMS coverage for recurring local events including the Spring Lake 5 Mile Run, Wall Fair, the Wall 175th Anniversary Parade, and the Wall Firecracker 5 Race, which simultaneously serve as recruitment and outreach touchpoints. Members are organized under a traditional line-officer structure (Captain, Lieutenants, Sergeants) with elected executive officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer) and a Board of Trustees.

The business and revenue model is exclusively donation-driven: services to patients are provided at no charge, no pricing models are disclosed, and no app, API, or commercial product surface exists. Fundraising flows through a Clover-hosted donation link and is supported by website sign-ups and a squad-update email newsletter. There is no parent company, no institutional or equity funding, and no revenue line item; the organization is entirely member-governed and community-funded.

Name

Wall Community First Aid Squad

Legal name

Wall Community First Aid Squad

Website

https://wcfas.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wall Community First Aid Squad is a volunteer-run non-profit EMS organization founded in 1960 that provides emergency medical response, ambulance services, and CPR and trauma training to the residents and visitors of Wall Township, New Jersey.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Medical Services (Volunteer EMS)

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical Emergency Response & On-site First Aid/Paramedics (BPABANAG)

Keywords

• Emergency medical services
• Volunteer ambulance response
• CPR and first aid training
• Community EMS coverage
• Trauma first aid training

Headquarters

HQ city

Manasquan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: The organization relies on community donations to support operations and equipment. Donations are described as the scaffold of their success and go directly to efforts supporting their cause.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Wall Community First Aid Squad is a volunteer nonprofit EMS organization that provides 24/7 emergency medical response to Wall Township residents and visitors using ambulances and a first responder vehicle. Beyond emergency response, it delivers community safety training including CPR, Stop the Bleed, and Trauma First Aid courses for schools, youth programs, and the NJ Youth Challenge Academy, and it operates a Junior Membership Program for youth ages 16+ interested in EMS careers.

Product overview

Wall Community First Aid Squad is a volunteer EMS organization that provides emergency medical services, first aid response, and community safety training to Wall Township residents and visitors. The organization operates primarily through volunteer membership and does not offer technology products or software services. Core offerings include: emergency response services with ambulances and first responder vehicles; CPR training programs for elementary schools; Stop The Bleed training; Trauma First Aid instruction; and a Junior Membership Program for youth ages 16+ interested in EMS careers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Volunteer Emergency Medical Response 24/7 volunteer emergency medical response service for residents and visitors of Wall Township, New Jersey, delivered through two fully equipped ambulances and a first responder vehicle dispatched from the squad's headquarters at 1417 Lakewood Road, Manasquan, NJ. Services are provided at no charge to patients.
• CPR Training Program Community CPR and first aid training program offered free of charge to Wall Township elementary school students and the broader community, equipping participants with life-saving skills.
• Trauma First Aid Training Trauma first aid instruction provided to cadets at the NJ Youth Challenge Academy, teaching trauma response skills to a youth-at-risk population in partnership with the academy.
• Community Event EMS Coverage Standby EMS coverage at local community events including the Spring Lake 5 Mile Run, Wall Fair, Wall 175th Anniversary Parade, Wall Firecracker 5 Race, and school graduations, deploying volunteer responders and equipment to support event safety.
• Junior Membership Program Volunteer junior membership program for youth ages 16 and older interested in pursuing EMS careers, providing training pathways funded through the NJ Training Fund and scholarship opportunities for members pursuing medical careers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Answered thousands of emergency calls over 29 years of service for a single member

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• South Wall Fire RescuecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Conducted joint training drill with South Wall Fire Rescue on 6/15/2026 at Allaire State Park. The two organizations teamed up with Wall PD for a Search and Rescue drill, demonstrating ongoing operational cooperation and shared training initiatives.
• Wall Police Department (Wall PD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipated in joint Search and Rescue drill with South Wall Fire Rescue and Wall PD at Allaire State Park on 6/15/2026. Wall PD also processes Emergency Service Identification Cards for squad members.
• Wall Township Elementary SchoolsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided CPR Training across all four Wall Township Elementary Schools in 2026 as part of the annual CPR Training Tour. Students were taught CPR and first aid skills.
• NJ Youth Challenge AcademyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided Trauma First Aid Training to cadets at NJ Youth Challenge Academy on 5/11/2026. Squad members taught trauma first aid skills to the cadets.
• Spring Lake 5 Race EventminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided EMS coverage to the annual Spring Lake 5 Mile Run event on 5/23/2026.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Point Pleasant Beach First Aid Squad: Neighboring New Jersey Shore volunteer first aid squad serving a single municipality with EMS response and community training — same volunteer, donation-funded, single-township operating model in an adjacent county.
• Howell First Aid Squad: Sister volunteer first aid squad in Howell, NJ — explicitly referenced in WCFAS's founding history (founder Al Shubeck was from Howell FAS and WCFAS purchased its first ambulance from Howell). Identical volunteer, donation-funded, township-EMS operating model.
• Wall First Aid Squad: The pre-existing first aid squad in Wall Township that WCFAS was founded to complement and that loaned WCFAS $1,000 in 1961. Operates the same volunteer EMS model in the same township — the most direct functional peer.
• Manasquan First Aid Squad: Volunteer first aid squad headquartered in the same municipality as WCFAS's headquarters (Manasquan, NJ), serving an adjacent community with the same volunteer EMS and event-coverage service mix.
• Spring Lake First Aid Squad: Neighboring Monmouth County volunteer EMS squad providing 911 response and event coverage to a single borough — directly comparable operating model and coastal-NJ service profile to WCFAS.

Broad incumbents

• American Red Cross: National nonprofit that delivers the CPR, first aid, and bleeding-control training curriculum WCFAS teaches to schools and cadets — a broader-incumbent peer in the same training category.
• Hackensack Meridian Health: Large NJ-based health system operating hospitals and EMS training programs across the state; a broad-incumbent peer whose clinical-training arm competes for the same community CPR/first aid training contracts.

Others

• New Jersey State First Aid Council: State-level umbrella association for volunteer first aid and rescue squads in New Jersey — comparable as an ecosystem/network peer that aggregates squads like WCFAS for training, lobbying, and mutual aid.
• Monmouth Medical Center: Regional hospital that is the natural patient-handoff destination for WCFAS transports — comparable as the regional node of the same emergency-care continuum and a likely clinical-training partner.

Regional players

• South Wall Fire Rescue: Adjacent emergency response organization that conducted a joint SAR drill with WCFAS at Allaire State Park; comparable in scale and geography, with an overlapping emergency-response remit in southern Wall Township.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/wcfas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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