This from Matt Schumann:
Broadlands Longview Fire-Rescue – 1997 HME 1871/Luverne 1500/750 xBridgeview, IL FD
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Archive for August 30th, 2015
Elmwood Park open house
Aug 30
Open House/Safety Fair
The Elmwood Park Fire Department will be holding an Open House Safety Fair on Saturday, September 5th from 10 AM until 2 PM at the Fire Department (7 Conti Parkway). The fair is open to the public, and aims to inform residents about how the department operates on a day to day basis.
The open house will feature:
- EMS Q & A
- live-fire & rescue demos
- utilities safety
- daily operation Q & A
- MABAS Division 20 Specialty Teams; HAZMAT, Investigators, Technical Rescue & Smoke Ejector
- home safety product displays
- Heartland Blood Drive
- children’s activities
For more information, visit the Village website and watch the informational video.
thanks Carl
This from Steve Redick:
I found some of my images from the Hawthorne Racetrack fire. The slides are stamped Nov 78. My buddy Hank and I were fanning at 84 truck 51 when the man on watch woke us up and told us to look out the 2nd floor window of the firehouse. Needless to say we went running for our cars. I recall the Cicero ALF tiller arrived about the same time we did and took a corner so fast we thought the tiller wheels were gonna come off. CFD had sent a few companies as well … 34, 364, 88, a turret wagon, and a buggy. This was a real old time classic suburban extravaganza!Steve
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Excerpt from theChicagoTribune.com:
Another big fire, on Nov. 19, 1978, destroyed the grandstand and heavily damaged the clubhouse at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney. The park was rebuilt and reopened in September, 1980.
Before they were destroyed, Hawthorne and Washington Park were considered extremely susceptible to fire because of extensive wooden structures. Hawthorne was built in 1891 and Washington Park in 1926, when building restrictions and fire codes were not as strict as today`s.
