Monday December 29th just before 2 pm Mt. Olive Dispatchers received several calls for a car on fire in the driveway of 4 River Road smoke could be scene from a distance as units arrived and confirmed a working car fire near the residence. Flanders Engine 95 arrived and stretched an inch and three quarter … Read more
Budd Lake Fire Brings Santa to Town https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=886344728072276
Firefighters trained on ROV-UTV safety with the Budd Lake First Squad and there new ROV. A few members took a 3 hour training safety class on how to operate the vehicle up and down hills and over rough terrain as well as proper stopping and starting. The new off road vehicle will be mostly used … Read more
Santa Claus visits during Budd Lake Fires annual kids Christmas Party. Thank You Santa
Thursday around diner time Budd Lake and Flanders Fire Departments were dispatched to the parking lot of the Mount Olive Township library for a car on fire, Car 52 arrived and reported a fire in the engine compartment. Engine 59 stretched there 100 foot bumper line and started knocking down the fire as Engine 95 … Read more
Ladder 58 was decked out with lights and a few members in the holiday spirit and off they went to the Bough of Netcong to celebrate the season. A couple of hundred people attended the mile or so route witch ended at the Netcong Fire House for the towns tree lighting. The parade was full of … Read more
Sunday December 7th Budd Lake Firefighters went to the Warren County Fire Academy and did extensive training on their new safety harness that were issued to the Rapid Intervention Crew a specialized team trained to save firefighters if they get in trouble. Firefighters took turns being lowered out of windows and sliding down ladders they … Read more
Budd Lake Fire conducted joint RIC Training with Netcong, Hackettstown & Flanders Fire Departments this morning crews went over each other’s Rapid Intervention bags and other equipment and then split up into groups and worked on techniques to rescue down firefighters. The drill lasted for two hours and and after there was a review of … Read more
Sunday November 30th the Netcong Fire Company was dispatched to Netcong Heights Apartments Building 23 for a report of a fire in a bedroom, first in crews found heavy smoke coming from the windows of the apartment and stretched in and inch and three quarter line. Command called for a second alarm as crews attacked … Read more