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I am pleased to honor President Walter Lata of the Budd Lake Volunteer Fire Department as this week’s #NJ07 Hometown Hero. President Lata, from Mount Olive, New Jersey, has shown exceptional dedication, pride, and commitment to the fire service department, going above and beyond serving as the Department President. President Lata responds to over 90% … Read more
2 separate calls this month that required extra care. The first was a car that rolled over on its roof Luckly the people were not seriously injured but taken to area hospital to be checked out. The second call was 2 workers that were on a roof working. One worker fell of the roof and … Read more
Last week we went to the Bright Path Day care in Budd Lake and did some fire safety tips for the kids and showed off our ladder truck and all the tools. The kids loved it, we love teaching safety.
Tuesday afternoon the tornado warnings came out and the fire department was soon called for several calls of trees and wires down. The second call was on Continental Dr. where there were wires and trees down on fire at the same time the rt. 206 extension ramp from Rt. 80 West there were 6 trees … Read more
Sunday just as storm calls started to calm down calls came in for a car fire on Rt. 80 East just before exit 27. Cars 50, 52 and Engine 59 responded an arrived at a well involved car. 59 used their front bumper line and quickly put down the flames. There were no injuries on … Read more
With the 4th of July getting ready to heat up a storm came rolling in with rain and wind that brought down trees and wires all over town. Cars 50, 51, 52 and Engines 53 and 59 responded to over 40 calls for service within a 30-hour period everything from down trees, wires and power … Read more
Tuesday night firefighters went to the Sussex County Fire Academy and trained in their class A burn building. Crews did 2 live fire scenarios, search and rescue and fire attack great training keeping up on their skills and staying ready for the real thing.
The beginning of the week Tender 57 and Car 52 responded into Byram for a house fire. Both units arrived and stood by and were released within a half hour.
The Rescue had another busy month of car crashes 14 for the month. Between Rt. 80, 46 and some local streets there were several car crashes the required our responses 2 extractions and several required spill cleanups. All crashes were no life threating injuries. There were also several others that did not have injuries. Please … Read more
