Bayonne Fire Dept. Purchases New Piece of Equipment For Water Rescues

Photo Credit: Facebook/Bayonne Office of Emergency Management                                                                                                                                                          The waters around the Peninsula City will be a bit safer now that the Bayonne Fire Department has deployed EMILY.  What is EMILY you ask?  Well, according to Bayonne Fire Chief Keith Weaver, EMILY is a new technology the department just purchased to help save lives on Bayonne’s waterways.

EMILY, which stands for EMergency Integrated Lifesaving lanYard, is a robotic jet propulsion watercraft which can be rapidly deployed to a person in distress in the waters around Bayonne.