This from Steve Redick:
Had a great opportunity to take in a dive incident at North & Thatcher yesterday. A car went over the guardrail and wound up in the middle of the Des Plaines River. The local FDs do not have any kind of dive team available so they utilized Chicago Squad 7 divers from O’Hare. It was interesting to observe the placement of the access ladder and the deployment of the divers. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a good look through the tree branches but you will get the idea. Some unusual rigs were on the scene as well … squad 7 was using an old engine as a spare. I believe that the boat came from the North Riverside FD, and was deployed upstream from my location. The search found no one and as of this writing they have retransmitted a dive box to search further. I am guessing that the owner of the vehicle has come up missing.
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#1 by Drew Smith on March 11, 2015 - 9:25 PM
Division 3 was called for its Sonar Unit carried on NB’s Dive Squad 10. Here was the text I received that day:
06:01PM Sun 03/08/2015 FYI – DIV 3 SONAR ON DIVE SQUAD 10 HAS BEEN DISPATCHED INTO DIV 11 / RIVER FOREST FOR A CAR IN THE RIVER AT NORTH AND THACKER. From RED
#2 by DG on March 10, 2015 - 4:42 PM
Brian, Division 3 is not the next division North of Division 11. Much of Division 20 and Division 9 aka the City of Chicago are between Divisions 3 and 11. If the farthest North Division 11 goes is North Avenue, and Division 3 doesn’t begin until roughly Bryn Mawr, that’s a lot of mileage you’re not accounting for. Also, Division 10’s Dive Team is the first due into Division 11 since Division 11 does not have their own team.
#3 by Brian on March 10, 2015 - 10:26 AM
Northbrook is in MABAS Division 3 which is the division north of Division 11 which River Forest is part of. I’m not sure if Division 11 has a dive team but I do know that Division 3 is the next due dive team into division 11
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#4 by Tom Foley on March 9, 2015 - 9:59 PM
EDIT: I did come across this updated Trib article which speaks to the status of the occupant: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/oak-park/news/ct-rfl-des-plaines-river-accident-tl-0312-20150309-story.html
#5 by Tom Foley on March 9, 2015 - 9:44 PM
Am I seeing this right? Northbrook was on scene? They are 20 miles away!
Some irony in a department named “River Forest” and they don’t have dive rescue… for a river.
Any word on what happened to the occupant(s) of the car?
#6 by Marty Coyne on March 9, 2015 - 4:27 PM
Posted before I finished.
They don’t use the pump and don’t have an engineer.
#7 by Marty Coyne on March 9, 2015 - 4:25 PM
6-6-1 also has a pump. They don’t use it.
#8 by FD guy on March 9, 2015 - 3:17 PM
Rosenbauer is not doing the squads …………………i do know that their is a bunch of equipment that does not fit on the spare rig now and its piled in the bay as far as a second engineer more then likly not beacuse most of the spare untis they have had did not have pumps………………..they we useing the EX engine 23 2000 lafrance that had the pump removed
#9 by mike mc on March 9, 2015 - 3:07 PM
Are they required to assign a second engineer to Squad 7 when they use the engine as a spare rig? It does have a pump.
I heard a rumor, just a rumor, that Rosenbauer has restarted assembly on the new squads and they are about a year away.
#10 by FD guy on March 9, 2015 - 2:51 PM
Dive Master 6-8-6 along with BC 8 responded from Chicago as well
#11 by FD guy on March 9, 2015 - 2:39 PM
Ex engine 10 is the E-one 1989 the Pierce is a 1998 EX Engine 9 @10 are now 9R and 10R this Ex engine 10 is 10S
#12 by Marty Coyne on March 9, 2015 - 2:14 PM
Great pics.
City better get on the stick with getting some new squads. When 7 is down to using x-engine 10 things are pretty bad.