Welcome to Long Branch FMBA Local 68

To proudly serve the public with integrity, protecting life, property and the environment through prevention, education and response, with a professional and dedicated workforce.

Firefighters Prayer

When I am called to duty, God,
  Whenever Flames may rage
Give me strength to save a life
  Whatever be its age.

Help me embrace a little child
   Before it is too late
Or save an older person from
   The horror of that fate.

Enable me to be alert
And hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently
Put the fire out.

I want to fill my calling
To give the best in me
To guard my friend and neighbor
And protect his property.

And if according to my fate
I am to lose my life
Please, bless with your protecting hand
My children and my wife.

BROTHER WHEN YOU WEEP FOR ME REMEMBER THAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE LAY ME DOWN AND WHEN YOU LEAVE REMEMBER I'LL BE AT YOUR SLEEVE IN EVERY DARK AND CHOKING HALL I'LL BE THERE AS YOU SLOWLY CRAWL ON EVERY ROOF IN DRIVING SNOW I'LL HOLD YOUR COAT AND YOU WILL KNOW IN CELLARS HOT WITH SEARING HEAT AT WINDOWS WHERE A GATE YOU MEET IN CLOSETS WHERE YOUNG CHILDREN HIDE YOU KNOW I'LL BE THERE AT YOUR SIDE THE HOUSE FROM WHICH I NOW RESPOND IS OVERSTAFFED WITH HEROES GONE MEN WHO ANSWERED ONE LAST BELL DID THE JOB AND DID IT WELL AS FIREMEN WE UNDERSTAND THAT DEATH'S A CARD DEALT IN OUR HAND A CARD WE HOPE WE NEVER PLAY BUT ONE WE HOLD THERE ANYWAY THAT CARD IS SOMETHING WE IGNORE AS WE CRAWL ACROSS A WEAKENED FLOOR FOR WE KNOW THAT WE'RE THE ONLY PRAYER FOR ANYONE THAT MIGHT BE THERE SO REMEMBER AS YOU WIPE YOUR TEARS THE JOY I KNEW THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AS I DID THE JOB I LOVED TO DO I PRAY THAT THOUGHT WILL SEE YOU THROUGH