Toms River Fire Companies 1 and 2, Ocean Beach Fire Company and East Dover Fire Company serve Toms River Fire District 1. Silverton Fire Company and Pleasant Plains Fire Company serve Toms River Fire District 2.

The Toms River Fire Department is a volunteer fire department that has around 350 members, which includes a ladies auxiliary and a youth corps. Toms River is the eighth largest municipality in the State of NJ having a population of 95,000 residents (that almost doubles in the summer months) in an area of about 53 square miles, 40 of which is land. Toms River is in the heart of the popular Jersey Shore region of the state and is the county seat of Ocean County NJ.

Dover Township changed its name to Toms River Township in 2006. Toms River Fire Company No. 1 was formed in 1896, Toms River Fire Company No. 2 was formed in 1922, Pleasant Plains Fire Company was formed in 1926, Ocean Beach Fire Company was formed in 1951, Silverton Fire Company was formed in 1951. East Dover Fire Company was formed in.