Up Close & Personal

Gary Green of the Linwood Fire Department at the controls of Ladder5 during the Skyline condo fire on April 9, 2022, in Pleasantville. Gary is a retired Ocean City Fire Captain and Ladder5 is the formerOCFD Ladder1 of which Gary was Captain. - Fire News photo by Dennis C. Sharpe Winslow Township Firefighter Sam Sofia running Winslow’s tankerat a joint drill on May 1, 2022. - Fire News photo by Dennis C. Sharpe Scullville’s Wendy Housand and West Atlantic City VolunteerFire Company Chief Wallace Bakeley at the Egg HarborTownship Memorial Day Parade. - Fire News photo by Dennis C. Sharpe

Forthe third yearon April, 3, 2022, the Hasbrouck Heights Fire Department held its annual “EasterBunny Around Town” drive-by event forthe families and especially forthe kids in Hasbrouck Heights. - Fire News photo by Justin Watrell

Instructors Bill Merola, Joe Ward and Levon Clayton who received their50-Yearawards on April 20, 2022, at the Atlantic County Firefighters Association ValorAwards and 50 YearAwards ceremonies. - Fire News photo by Dennis C. Sharpe

Demarest past Fire Chief and past Fire Association President Jeff Bellucci Poses with a 1948 Mack Pumperafterthe memorial service at the Fireman’s Monument afterthe town’s Memorial Day Parade. - Fire News photo by Chris ‘Doc’Denton

Page 30, Fire News, July 2022 Obituary West Long Branch’s Biagio Guzzi

Recently the West Long Branch Fire Department assisted in the funeral procession following the death of active firefighter Biagio ‘Billy’Guzzi who passed away on April 15, 2022. He was 56.

District 53’s antique Mack carried the casket while the other engines took part in the procession which went by the Monmouth Road Fire House where Firefighter Guzzi’s gear was set up next to the bell, which was rung as the procession passed under both ladder trucks.

Billy is survived by his cherished son, Biagio Joseph, his parents, Joseph and Pasqua (Angiuli) Guzzi; his siblings, Santo, Anna Maria (Ben) Camooso, Rosettina (Ed) Bertini and Joseph, Jr. He also leaves behind his niece Carmela Bertini, many aunts, uncles, cousins and good friends.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made payable to “Biagio Guzzi Trust:” in the memo section write for the benefit of his son Biagio Joseph Guzzi, P.O. Box 567, Long Branch, NJ 07740. - Fire News photos by Mark Rosetti