Fire Rescue Encourages Safe Driving In School Zones
Oakland Park Fire Rescue along with deputies for the Oakland Park BSO district encourage safe driving at Oakland Park’s elementary schools during the first days of school.
Oakland Park Fire Captain, Dan Debrecht, Beats Fires and Beats Cancer
Firefighters are trained to fight fires. When they encounter a fire, they have to set fear aside, summon all their courage to face it and beat it, without any hesitation. But burning buildings are not the only kinds of fires that firefighters face. Sometimes life presents them with fires, fires that require that same courage […]
Oakland Park Fire Rescue Honors Its Heroes After COVID Forced Postponement of Awards
The Awards Must Go On: Honoring Our Heroes Last year normal changed for all of us. Life as we knew it had to be put on hold as we profoundly changed the way we live in order to battle a deadly pandemic. This caused many events to be postponed, including a new awards ceremony Oakland […]
Water Safety: Tips for Staying Safe in and Around Water
May is Water Safety Month and in Oakland Park, we want to make sure you’re informed on what to do to ensure fun days of safe splashing and swimming with your family. Water, Water, Everywhere! Living in a peninsula, we are mostly surrounded by water. Our beaches are beautiful and popular and a main spot […]
Oakland Park City Hall Set on Fire
On Saturday January 23 just after 7:00 pm BSO and Oakland Park Fire Rescue responded to a call of a fire at City Hall in Oakland Park. The fire occurred outside the entryway doors. Resident, Chantelle Iacone, who had just left the Butcher’s Barrel when it happened commented in the Living In Oakland Park Facebook […]
Oakland Park Commits to COVID Vaccine Distribution Effort
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 early this year, the entire world has held its breath for a vaccine. After 10 long months, the vaccine has arrived in the United States and now South Florida. According to a Oakland Park Mayor, Jane Bolin, the City of Oakland Park has been invited to participate in the cooperative […]
Oakland Park Fire Rescue Responds to Smoke Alarm at Post Office
On Saturday, December 12th, at 10:38 P.M. Oakland Park Fire Rescue responded to a smoke alarm at the Oakland Park Post Office, located at 3550 NE 12th Ave, Oakland Park. Smoke Alarm at Post Office Fire Rescue was quickly able to determine that a small fire started in a dropbox in the lobby, which is […]
Oakland Park Firefighters Bring Christmas To Family That Lost Everything
On November 30th, 2020 Kelli and Stephen Korman and their two daughters lives were changed forever when the apartment they were moving into caught fire. Just 25 days before the biggest holiday in the world they lost everything and did not know what to do or how they were going to bring Christmas to their […]
Oakland Park Family Loses Everything in Fire
On November 30th, 2020, Kelli and Stephen, who just moved all of their worldly possessions into a new apartment in Oakland Park, came home to ruins. While Kelli was picking up one of her two daughters from daycare, her husband and mother-in-law phoned her to tell her news no one wants to hear. There had […]
Motorcycle Crash Leaves One Man Dead in Oakland Park
On Saturday November 21 at around 6:18pm Broward County Regional Communications answered a call in which the caller reported an accident at 1300 E. Oakland Park Blvd in Oakland Park. The accident involved a 2003 Toyota Corolla, driven by 31 year old Joseph Laura IV of Oakland Park and a 2017 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, driven […]
