Olive Fire Department
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 - 2:12 pm
Above: A map of four recent crashes on Route 28.
Two serious car crashes occurred within hours of each other on Tuesday, Aug. 25 on a stretch of Route 28 in the Ulster County towns of Olive and Shandaken that has already seen multiple collisions this... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 - 8:46 am
Above: Firefighters from Olive helped a Long Beach firefighter gut his flood-damaged home after Hurricane Sandy. Photos contributed by Chris Winne.
Chris Winne, the chief of the Olive Fire Department, sent these photos last week of a trip five Olive... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 - 8:02 pm
At 5pm today, Olive Town Supervisor Berndt J. Leifeld declared a state of emergency for the Ulster County town and urged residents in flood-prone areas to consider evacuating to higher ground if they feel threatened. Leifeld wrote that the Supervisor's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 9, 2012 - 9:34 am
Above: Photo from the scene of a fire at 14 Brunel Drive in Boiceville, taken by Ralph VanKleeck Jr. of the Olive Fire Department. Reproduced with permission.
A fire that started in a garage caused major damage to a home on Brunel Drive in Boiceville on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 - 3:40 pm
Top: The new tires on "The USA," Olive's vintage fire truck. Above: A slideshow of photos of "The USA" on Flickr, courtesy of Ralph VanKleeck Jr. Click the photos to view the captions.
Bringing a vintage 1936 Holabird fire truck owned by the town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 - 8:22 am
Flickr user Bahram Foroughi uploaded this epic photo of firefighters in the Ulster County town of Olive to the Watershed Post Flickr group. To see more of Bahrah Foroughi's Olive firefighter photos, look at this set on Flickr.
