Archive for March 5th, 2018

Elk Grove Village Fire Department news (more)

Rendering of new fire station for Elk Grove Village IL

Excerpts from the Journal-topics.com:

Elk Grove Village is ready to start work on two new fire stations. Demolition of the existing fire station at 676 Meacham Rd. is expected to begin Monday, Feb. 19. A new Fire Station No. 10 will be built at that site. Demolition of a building on recently purchased property at 700 Fargo Ave., a site which will serve as the new firehouse for firefighters from stations at Oakton and Lively and 1655 Greenleaf Ave., is expected in late February.

Both stations are expected to break ground in late March or early April and be completed in summer 2019.   The Fargo station is expected to cost $12 million. The Meacham station is expected to cost $12 million. 

Firefighters from the Meacham station will soon move into temporary trailers on the grounds of the newly renovated west side public works facility on Biesterfield Road. Firefighters at the Oakton and Greenleaf stations will remain at those houses until the new Fargo station is completed.

At the (Jan. 23 village board meeting, trustees awarded a contract for $1,008,500 for a new Pierce aerial ladder quint. The new truck would be stationed at the Fargo firehouse.

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Huntley Fire Protection District news

Excerpts from the NWHerald.com:

An overnight house fire injured two Lake in the Hills residents Sunday. The Huntley Fire Protection District responded to a reported structure fire about 3:45 a.m. in the first block of Newbury Court, Lake in the Hills.

When firefighters arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames, Battalion Chief Mike Pierce said. Two residents were home at the time. They were out of the house when responders arrived at the scene, and they were flown to a Rockford hospital with injuries, Pierce said.

The house has been deemed uninhabitable, but a damage estimate was not available Sunday. Crews cleared the scene about 9:30 a.m.

Fire officials heard a report that the residents had dogs, but the animals had not been found Sunday morning, Pierce said.

The Huntley Fire Protection District, state fire marshal and Lake in the Hills Police Department are investigating the fire.

Fire crews from Algonquin-Lake in the Hills, Fox River Grove, Woodstock, West Dundee, Hampshire, Crystal Lake, and Rutland-Dundee assisted.

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New engine for the East Joliet Fire Protection District (more)

Updated production photos of the new engine for the East Joliet FPD being built by Ferrara

new fire engine for the East joliet FPD

Ferrara Fire Apparatus photo

new fire engine for the East joliet FPD

Ferrara Fire Apparatus photo

new fire engine for the East joliet FPD

Ferrara Fire Apparatus photo

new fire engine for the East joliet FPD

Ferrara Fire Apparatus photo

new fire engine for the East joliet FPD

Ferrara Fire Apparatus photo

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New brush unit for Minooka Fire

Found on the CAMZ Communications, inc. Facebook page:

fire department brush fire truck

From Facebook

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