Sitting with me in the firehouse is Chief Dudley. Chief Dudley joined North Lindenhurst FD as a junior firefighter September 1989, the Lindenhurst Fire Department 3/3/92 and was an active member until 4/12/99. Soon after he joined the North Lindenhurst FD where he was assigned to Engine & Heavy Rescue Co.1. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant in 2003, elected 1st Lieutenant in 2004 and elected Captain 2005. Chief Dudley continued to grow in the field as he went on to being elected 2nd Deputy Chief 2007 (ran unopposed), elected 1st Deputy Chief 2008-2009, elected Chief of the Department 2009-2011 and elected Captain 2017.

In his professional work life, this month has made 30 years of him being an Emergency Service Dispatcher. Since June of 2019 he has been serving on the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees (AME) the union which represents 10,000 active and retired employees of the Suffolk County workforce in 924 different job titles and is NY Largest independent union and is currently the Executive Vice President of the organization.

Chief Dudley has served several times as the fill in host on Suffolk AME's weekly radio program “Suffolk Matters” heard on WALK FM and its partner stations and on YouTube, with a listening audience of 800,000.

He joined the Farmingville FD 2/10/20 where he was assigned to Lightning Engine Co.3, was a member of Babylon Central Fire Alarm from 8/8/94-12/31/07 and now with the Suffolk County Fire Rescue and Emergency Services.