Heavy Wrecker Training

Budd Lake Fire did some training with our local towing company Bill’s Towing. The objectives tonight were discussing and showing how Bill’s rotor crane truck can be useful at MVA’s and other type of incidents. Crews walked around the truck getting to know all the tools on the truck. The crew did a lift of … Read more

Assisting Roxbury Twp.

The wee hours of Saturday the Tender with 2 responded into Roxbury on Rt. 46 for a stump pile on fire. The Tender stood by and provided water to brush trucks and engines. The crew returned around 3:30 am. Roxbury Fire Departments Facebook post. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2437093963307080/?s=single_unit&__cft__[0]=AZVqJ_6E-usmBaa7TAPYdnmMwCCx044xvO9NDAWQW8Bs1Lo9hy3O8G2OKSc5yY7YuVDn_t_dv1MfbYsf3BhyGQ41VM-sJevnYZeWIvv0oSqaRKQm5vcqvwkoW49Gnci7kpApTCWkl1aVSGNmgIPb5d-n7h9_Ivn75Bu22rHRma–JwE9ITJSPg_CWbfaRmAidFCKFA_HDAdff3te5KzapvbY&__tn__=H-R

Attended Ramadan

Recently the department attended the Ramadan celebration at the senior center, we love showing all cultures in Mount Olive support. Love our community.

1 Removed from Lake

Thursday late morning a call came in for a person in the water on Budd Lake Car 52 rescue 55 and marine 1 responded. Crews launched marine 1 and found the person standing in the water on a piece of an ice boat. The person was pulled onto the boat and returned to shore where … Read more

Tender Assist to Randolph

Shortly after 1 am the department was called to assist with providing water to an apartment complex fire in Randolph Twp. Tender 57 and Chief 2 responded. The Tender pumped water in a line of other Tenders the crews returned a few hours later.

Special Operations Training

With the weather cold and snowing the department took advantage of some indoor training on man vs machine where crews practiced removing hands and feet from snowblowers, woodchippers and meat grinders as well as cutting rings off that were stuck on fingers. Then outside to the ice where we drilled on ice rescue skills removing … Read more

Saying Goodby to a Hero

It is with deep regret we announce the passing of long time member Clarence Brickman. May he RIP.  Clarence H. Brickman Obituary Clarence H. Brickman, 91, of Budd Lake, NJ, passed away peacefully on February 2, 2025, at Heath Village in Washington Township, NJ. Born on November 6, 1933, in Somerville, NJ, Clarence was the … Read more

Coffee Roster Fire

Recently the Budd Lake and Flanders Fire companies were dispatched to Bartly Rd. for a coffee roster on fire in a commercial building, Units arrived and had smoke coming out of the vent pipe and then went in and found the roster machine on fire and the flue pipe very hot. Crews from engine 95 … Read more

Ashes Start Outside Fire

We were recently called for a brush fire on Station Rd. on arrival a pile of logs was on fire, engine 53 quickly put the fire out. Please watch where you put your ashes, they can smolder for days luckily there was minor damage to a plastic shed and not a home.