Archive for April 24th, 2020

Fire service news – Coronavirus COVID-19

Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:

The Northwest Central Dispatch System plans to go to court Friday to try to get the Cook County Department of Public Health to release information on confirmed COVID-19 patients in the Northwest suburbs. The anticipated filing of a temporary restraining order in Cook County circuit court follows an unsuccessful lobbying effort by the Arlington Heights-based dispatch system and elected officials in some of its 11 member communities.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle turned down the request, while a resolution to provide addresses of COVID-19 patients sponsored by six county board members was sent to committee Thursday. That resolution earned letters of support from mayors and village presidents in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Palatine, and Wheeling.

Officials from the dispatch system, which answers 911 calls for police and fire departments in the Northwest suburbs, argue that having information on coronavirus patients would increase the safety precautions paramedics, police, and firefighters take before they arrive at emergency calls. Dispatchers planned to enter the information into their computer-aided dispatch system as premise warnings when sending police or fire to an address, but vowed to remove the information after an agreed amount of time.

“My personal position had been that we should follow Illinois Department of Public Health guidelines,” Preckwinkle said. “My understanding is that those guidelines suggested that our first responders emergency personnel should assume that any residence that they go to is possibly infected by COVID-19 since 80% of the people who get the disease have either mild symptoms or are asymptomatic.”

That’s a similar view to that of the McHenry County Health Department, which declined to provide names of COVID-19 patients until the McHenry County sheriff and four police departments sued earlier this month. A judge ruled that the names should be provided but must be kept confidential and purged from the 911 dispatch system seven days after the health department deems a patient is no longer contagious.

Lake County Health Department officials also have opted not to provide patient information to police and first responders firefighters.

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Box alarm fire in Chicago, 4-23-20

This from Steve Redick:

Box at 3803 W. Grand Avenue, Thursday 4/23/20. Vacant building, the site of previous fires. 

E-ONE Cyclone tower ladder

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Rosenbauer Commander ACP-55

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Spartan fire engine in Chicago

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Rosenbauer Commander ACP-55

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Chicago FD Tower Ladder 14

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Chicago fire scene

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Chicago fire engine on scene

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Chicago fire truck on scene

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New tower ladder for Naperville (more)

Found on Facebook – New Naperville FD Tower 10

Pierce Velocity tower ladder

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Pierce Velocity tower ladder

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Pierce Velocity tower ladder

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Pierce Velocity tower ladder

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House fire in Oak Lawn, 4-21-20

From Oak Lawn EMS-Fire-Rescue on Facebook

MABAS Division 21 Box 12- At 11:55PM, OLFD responded to a structure fire on S. 55th Ave in Oak Lawn with support from our mutual aid partners. The fire was extinguished. No one was home at the time of the fire. No injuries. Cause is under investigation. #YourLifeOurMission #ISOClass1
 

 

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