Archive for April 1st, 2015

Funeral for Hammond Firefighter Mike Dernulc – April 1, 2015

Hammond Indiana Firefighter Michael Dernulc

Michael Dernulc

 

 

Michael Dernulc, 50, of Schererville, IN passed away on Saturday, March 28, 2015. Mike was a Fireman with the City of Hammond for 20 years.

 

 

Images from Tim Olk of the funeral for Hammond Firefighter Mike Dernulc

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wife and son of a firefighter at his funeral

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son of a firefighter at his funeral

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fire department bagpipers at firefighter funeral

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Lisle-Woodridge FPD to eliminate the rank of captain

Excerpts from keepingagreeneyeonlisle.blogspot.com:

LWFD Quietly Approves Major Reorganization Plan – Job Cuts Finally Hit the Fire Department.

The Lisle-Woodridge Fire District Board of Trustees approved a major reorganization plan at their March 24, 2015 meeting that eliminates several jobs.

The reorganization plan was recently posted on the LWFD website and comes about nine months after Moody’s downgraded the District’s financial rating due to underfunding its annual pension payments. The plan calls for the elimination of company officer positions in order to free up sufficient funds to make required pension fund payments.

There are currently five officers holding the rank of captain and those positions will be eliminated when the individuals who are currently holding the positions are … promoted, demoted, retire, resign, or otherwise terminated from service…

The reorganization Ordinance does not outline the cost savings from the elimination of positions. According to the posted compensation disclosure, (note: this is for 2013; current total compensation report has not been posted online) the position of captain had a total compensation package of $144K – 155K per year. This could amount to a shift of about $750,000 per year from employee salaries/compensation to be used for pension funding. There were a total of 117 positions on the LWFD payroll in 2013 (not including paid trustees).

No long term financial plan has been publicly approved by the LWFD Board.

Below are excerpts from Lisle-Woodridge FPD Ordinance No: 15-03.02 Authorizing the Reorganization of the Company Officer Structure of the Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District which can be found in it’s entirety here:
LWFPD Ordinance 15-03.02

LWFPD Ordinance 15-03.02

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2-Alarm Brush Fire for Homer Township FPD, 3-30-15

This from Josh Boyajian:

Here are a few shots from the 2nd Alarm Brush Box Monday (3/30/15) in Homer Township. The staging for this incident was at Cedar Road & Bruce Rd in the Forest Preserve. I also included a picture of their newer E-One engine.

-Josh
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East Joliet FPD brush unit. Josh Boyajian photo

firemen fight a grass fire

Josh Boyajian photo

firemen fight a grass fire

Josh Boyajian photo

E-ONE Typhoon fire engine

Homer Township FPD Engine 32. Josh Boyajian photo

This from Code Photography:

Here are some photos of the 2nd Alarm Brush fire in Homer Glenn on Monday (3/30/15). I made it about 10 minutes after the 2nd alarm and by then they had it under control, but it looked like they had a couple acres going at one point.

More photos can be found here:

-Code Photography

firemen extinguish a grass fire in a field

Code Photography

Lockport firefighters fight a brush fire

Lockport township FPD brush unit. Code Photography

firemen fight a grass fire

Code Photography

Frankfort FPD firefighters extinguish a grass fire

Frankfort FPD brush unit. Code Photography

grass fire scorches several acres

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