Meet the Commissioners of
Fire District No. 1
Chairman: William Howard
Vice Chairman: Dale Gentek
Secretary: Carrise Mornick
Treasurer: Linda Brannon
Commissioner: Bryon Harron
William Howard: Born and raised in Villas, graduate of LCMR class of '81. Bill joined the Villas Vol. Fire Co. in Aug. of 1981 and has 40 years of active membership and served in every position of the Fire Company. He was a District Warden with the NJ State Forest Fire Service for 35 years.
Bill enlisted in the Navy April of '82. After graduation he served aboard the USS Nitro AE 23. During the 4 years aboard the Nitro the ship was off the coast if Beirut Lebanon during the Multinational peace keeping forces in '83. During the ships second Med. Cruise the Nitro found themselves off the coast of Beirut again during the TWA hijacking.
After 4 years of active service Bill joined the Nay Reserves. While in the Reserves he served on a Navy Reserve Mine hunter stationed in Cape May. During the tour on the mine hunter he made 1st class petty officer and got certified as a Craft Master on the boat putting him in charge of a 12 person crew.
Next duty station was part of an inshore boat unit. While in that unit he made Chief Petty Officer again. After making Chief Boatswains he was transferred to a Cargo Handling Battalion; NCHB8 out of Fort Dix, NJ.
While serving at that command he ended up doing 2 deployments over to Kuwait and Iraq in 2004 and again in 2005-2006. In April of 2007 he retired Chief Boatswains Mate U.S Navy with 25 years of service.
Commander of VFW Post 5343 Villas; 13 years
Past VFW Dist. 17 Commander; 2007-2009, 2020-2021, 2023-2024
VFW National Aid- De Camp; 2018-2019, 2021-2022
VFW National Assistant Inspector General; 2023-2024
Dale Gentek: Retired as Captain, City of Wildwood Fire Dept with 30 years of service. He is now a Lower Township Level “A” volunteer firefighter with over 33 years of service, currently an active Level "A" firefighter with the Villas Volunteer Fire Company.
State of New Jersey Level 2 Fire Instructor #110302
Pro-Board Level 3 Instructor, M.F.R.I.
FEMA Level Instructor
Member of NJ-TF1, New Jersey Task Force 1, a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team; 24 years of service and still active.
Cape May County Fire Academy Instructorover 15 years
New Jersey Certified Fire Inspector #110302
Certified HAZ-Mat Technician. Member of the County CBRNE team.
Certified EMT since '83
Carrise Mornick: Born and raised in Chester, Pa, Carrise was a 911 operator for Delaware County, Pa. She moved to Villas in September of 1990 and joined the Villas Fire Dept. in 1998. Carrise ran and was elected to the Lower Township Board of Fire Commissioners where she still holds positions as Secretary. Besides holding position of Secretary with the Fire Commissioners she works part time at Wawa Food Markets as a Customer Service Associate. Married for 25+ years she
co-owned Cape County Glass with her husband, installing all aspects of glass and screening other than auto. Her and her husband own a Mobile Home Park in Kentucky which they run from the Villas.
Mailing Address:
Board Of Fire Commissioners
P.O. BOX 1
Villas, NJ 08251
Auditor: Leon Costell
Solicitor: Richard Braslow