More images from the Box Alarm at 2847 Old Higgins Road 8/24/15
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Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Tim Olk photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Images from Scott Peterson & Larry Shapiro of the Elk Grove Township Box Alarm 8/24/15
Scott Peterson photo
Scott Peterson photo
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Scott Peterson photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
more photos are at shapirophotography.net
Early images from the Box Alarm at 2847 Old Higgins Road in unincorporated Cook County. The building was a vacant, commercial structure formerly the home of a concrete company.
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Jan 21
This from Josh Boyajian:
From the Alexis website –
New Ambos
- North Chicago FD
- McHenry Fire Dist
- Long Grove FD
- Elk Grove Township FD
- Beech Park FD
- Zion FD
- Bloomingdale FD
Bloomingdale Fire District ambulance. Alexis photo
Zion FD ambulance. Alexis photo
North Chicago FD ambulance. Alexis photo
McHenry Township FPD ambulance. Alexis photo
Long Grove FPD ambulance. Alexis photo
Elk Grove Township FD ambulance. Alexis photo
This from Martin Nowak:
Elk Grove Township Engine 310, a 1981 Mack MC started its life as a Bridgeview Fire Department Engine 405 out of Station 2. Here’s a story a firefighter told me at my recent visit to the fire house. It was either 1993 to 1995 when a generator on top of Engine 405 started leaking as so this leak reached some batteries below. This caused sparks and so the whole fire truck engulfed in flames is sitting in the bay with firefighters sleeping. They wake up to someone pounding on the door. A police officer is standing at the door and says your fire truck is on fire. Here’s where the purchase of a new engine comes in. The department was looking for a truck and stumbled across what is currently 1993 Pierce Dash as Engine 425 (Picture taken by me recently). This truck was a Pierce demo with the specs the department liked or best fit them. Elk Grove Township purchased the burned up engine and had it repaired. Changes can be seen between the old photo (thanks to Bill Friedrich for allowing me me to use it) to the current picture on the site.
Bridgeview Engine 405. Bill Friedrich photo
Elk Grove Township FPD 1981 Mack engine with a 1,250-GPM pump, 1,100 gallons of water and 300 gallons of foam. Larry Shapiro photo
Martin Nowak photo
Also, Kevin G found this link to X-Bridgeview Ambulance 406 that is being offered for sale
Penske photo
The Daily Herald has an article describing a contentious Mount Prospect village board meeting where the trustees announced that they would annex property covered by the Elk Grove Township Fire District:
Mount Prospect officials verbally sparred this week with Elk Grove Township Fire Department Chief Michael Nelson over the village’s latest annexation, which he fears could eventually lead to the department’s end.
The debate occurred Tuesday after village trustees voted to annex 14 acres that include the ARC Disposal & Recycling Co. headquarters at 2101 S. Busse Road.
The move, however, didn’t make everyone happy, because it represents the further erosion of fire district’s increasingly dwindling tax base.
“It concerns me because now it’s going to start taking away more of the fire district and ultimately having us dissolved,” Nelson said.
The ARC annexation comes a month after Mount Prospect took in 13.6 acres of the United Airlines campus at 1200 E. Algonquin Road, a move which also will cost the fire district future tax revenues. The fire district will receive compensation for five years, under an agreement governed by state statute, but will no longer receive taxes from the property.
“We will pay (the fire district) the lump sum that the statute requires (for disconnection),” he added.
Nelson said he fears that the addition of the United and ARC parcels will clear the way for the village to begin annexing more property in the district. He also worries that properties not annexed will lose fire protection entirely if the first district is forced to dissolve.
“Basically my biggest concern is that you have now put a wedge in the middle of Busse Road with the ability to start forcibly annexing left and right,” he said.
Trustee Paul Hoefert said he understands the impact on the fire district but noted there is going to be a trend of unincorporated areas being absorbed into municipalities in Cook County.
Trustee A. John Korn added: “Eventually we’re going to go ahead and be one community after another and there will not be any unincorporated area. I mean I grew up in unincorporated Maine Township. There is some of it left but not much.”
May 24
Several long overdue updates to various department pages have been completed as follows:
thanks Karl, Hank, Jim, Nick, Larry, Drew, and Jeff
Bill Friedrich submitted a historical image showing Elk Grove Township‘s former Squad 345 which was recently converted into Squad 11 by fire department personnel. They removed the tank, booster pump and hose reel to add additional storage space for the squad apparatus.
Elk Grove Township Squad 345 was a 1999 Ford F550 with a Fibre Body, a 60-GPM pump, 300-gallon water tank and 20-gallon foam tank. Bill Friedrich photo
Elk Grove Township Squad 11 - formerly Squad 345. Bill Friedrich photo
Bill Friedrich photographed Elk Grove Township Squad 11 which was missing from the site. This unit was recreated by members of the fire department. Now a technical rescue and haz mat squad, the unit previously had a 600-GPM pump and carried 300 gallons of water with 20 gallons of foam.
Squad 11 is a 1999 Ford F-550 with a Fibre Body that was installed and painted by members of the department. Bill Friedrich photo
Scott Peterson reports that:
Elk Grove Township is running an Alexis engine (rental) for their 2nd engine (EGRT ENG 211). It is from Galesburg, IL- ex Eng 52, still black/red. It is labeled Elk Grove Twp, but does have the 52 on the rear of each side. I'll try and get pics next week.
Bill Friedrich adds this about the engine:
it is a 1992 Spartan/Darley 1500 / 600
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