Emergency personnel searched Budd Lake in Morris County on Monday tonight after a report of two missing teens falling through the ice.
Emergency personnel searched Budd Lake in Morris County tonight after a report of two missing teens thought to have fallen through the ice, according to The Star-Ledger.
Emergency personnel spent several hours searching part of Budd Lake
in Mount Olive after receiving reports of screams for help at
about 6:20 p.m., Morris County officials and Mount Olive police said.
Two residents went on to the lake in a boat to respond to the shouts but did not find anything, acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said in a news conference with Mount Olive Mayor Robert Greenbaum.
A state police helicopter and ice rescue teams from the area had been requested for help in the search, in addition to the first responders, Budd Lake Fire Department and Budd Lake First Aid Squad.Mount Olive Township police spokesman Cpl. Eric Anthony said preliminary reports indicated that additional people may have been in the lake.
About 8 p.m., three first responders in orange suits and pulling a gurney walked about 100 yards onto the lake where they were seen scanning the surface of the ice with flashlights. They returned with their gurney empty.
A resident who ice-fishes the lake said that over the weekend the ice had been steadily thinning.
A spokesman for the Mount Olive police could not be reached for additional information this evening.