Archive for December 21st, 2019

Skokie Fire Department news

Excerpts from skokie.org:

At the village board meeting on Monday, December 16, 2019, interim Fire Chief Jeffrey Hoeflich was sworn in as the new Fire Chief.

Hoeflich joined the Skokie Fire Department in 1986. During this 33-year tenure with Skokie, Hoeflich has progressed through the ranks of lieutenant and captain.  Prior to serving as interim chief, he was the Training Officer for the Skokie Fire Department for ten years and a battalion chief.

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Fox Lake fire engines for sale

Found at firetruckresource.com:

1991 SPARTAN ALEXIS PUMPER TANKER #A71619

  • 44,088 Miles
  • 4 Man Seating
  • 3 SCBA seats
  • 8.3 Cummins engine
  • 3369 engine hours
  • Hale 1250-GPM pump
  • 615 Pump hours
  • Akron Deck gun
  • 1500-gallon Poly tank
  • 10” rear electric tank dump valve
  • Hydraulic 8 KW generator
  • Wilburt 3000 Watt light tower
1991 SPARTAN ALEXIS PUMPER TANKER

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1991 SPARTAN ALEXIS PUMPER TANKER

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and this pumper/tanker was sold

2001 SPARTAN ALEXIS PUMPER TANKER #71659

  • 24,130 miles
  • 5-man cab
  • 4 SCBA seats
  • Cummins ISM 450HP Engine
  • 1800 Engine hours
  • Allison Transmission
  • Air horns in bumper
  • Kussmaul battery charger
  • Air shoreline with auto eject
  • Hale 1500 GPM pump
  • Current pump test
  • (1) booster reel
  • 3000-gallon Poly tank
  • (2) 2 ½” Rear tank fill
  • (3) 10” Tank dump valves
2001 SPARTAN ALEXIS PUMPER TANKER

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2001 SPARTAN ALEXIS PUMPER TANKER

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thanks Danny

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Box Alarm in Maywood, 12-21-19

This from Steve Redick:

Maywood Box 135 S 19th ave

house fire in Maywood IL

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house fire in Maywood IL

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house fire in Maywood IL

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E-ONE aerial ladder battling a fire

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E-ONE fire engine at scene

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E-ONE Bronto Sky-Lift

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Maywood FD fire engine

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aftermath of house fire at night

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house fire in Maywood IL

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Illinois Fire Service news (more)

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday consolidated pension programs for most of the state’s police officers and firefighters outside the Chicago area, a move he said would expand the funds by up to $2.5 billion over five years while cutting administrative costs for local governments. He lauded the action as a landmark step toward rectifying Illinois’ beleaguered public-employee retirement systems, but it doesn’t touch accounts for state employees or Cook County, which includes Chicago. Those accounts are tens of billions of dollars short of full funding.

The measure Pritzker signed into law creates two statewide funds — one for law enforcement agencies and another for firefighters — from among 649 local programs outside of Cook County, a goal that has eluded previous lawmakers and governors for 70 years

With pooled assets of $8.7 billion in the police fund and $6.3 billion in the fire account,  additional investment returns will total $800 million to $2.5 billion in the first five years while also relieving local governments of administrative costs for housing separate programs.

“We are helping hundreds of cities in Illinois alleviate their spiraling property tax burdens, and just as importantly, we’re showing that Illinois can tackle its most intractable problems,” Pritzker said in a statement.

A pension-review committee the governor convened in January recommended the change and lawmakers agreed, giving Pritzker the latest of several legislative victories he has enjoyed in his first year on the job.

But the change doesn’t affect nine Chicago and Cook County pension accounts underfunded by $44 billion, or five state employees’ programs that are $134 billion short.

The lone effort to cut those costs, a 2013 law that ended compounded yearly cost-of-living increases, extended retirement ages for current state workers and limited the amount of salary that counts toward calculating benefits the Illinois Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional in 2015.

Another cost-cutting law that survived offers less-generous benefits to new employees. But the cuts were so steep they threaten to eventually violate federal Social Security minimum protections, so Wednesday’s consolidation law sweetened by as much as $95 million the less-generous benefits employees hired after Jan. 1, 2011, receive.

The new law retains local pension boards to administer benefits and ensures that no assets or liabilities are moved from one plan to another.

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