By Pei-Sze Cheng and Brian Thompson, NBCNewYork.com
Rescue dive teams have suspended their search for two teenagers after a reported ice collapse on a lake in New Jersey.
The search at Budd Lake, Morris County,?was scheduled to resume Tuesday morning, and emergency personnel were staying on the scene through the night to keep the area secure, authorities said.
Police in Mount Olive, N.J., said they received several 911 calls before 6:30 p.m. ET reporting someone screaming for help on the ice.
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One of the 911 callers, William Hardy, told NBC 4 New York that he and a friend heard the screams and went to the lake to investigate.
"We heard some individuals calling for help, saying, 'Please help us. Please save us, someone help,'" Hardy said.
Hardy ventured onto the ice to locate the voices but could not safely get far enough to reach them.
"I took the flashlight and walked out about 800 feet," he said. "They're still another 100 feet in front of me, the ice is cracking. I can see a cell phone, I can still hear them. They're still talking to me, and then the firefighters came."
Dive and rescue teams from Mount Olive and seven other nearby towns arrived to assist in the search, said Morris County prosecutor Fred Knapp.
They broke through ice across hundreds of feet in an attempt to reach the area where the teens were believed to be, but they were unable to locate them.
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Knapp said the families of the teens had been notified.
New Jersey State Police sent a helicopter over the scene and sent a tactical squad to assist Mount Olive Police rescuers.
Mount Olive Mayor Robert Greenbaum said it was difficult to assess the ice conditions on the lake and noted that many people have ventured out on it. It's not clear what the teens were doing on the ice.
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