Posts Tagged Friedrich

Naperville is coming to the site

Naperville, in Division 16, currently has 10 stations. As can be imagined, it’s a large task to accumulate all of the information and photos to post the department at once. With that in mind, Andrew Hilk, Bill Friedrich, and Larry Shapiro are working toward that end. As of now, all 10 stations have pages on the site with placeholders for the assigned apparatus. Roughly a third of the apparatus photos have been posted but several vehicles have been reassigned and have not been photographed with their most recent numbering. In addition, there are new deliveries to keep up with as several fleet updates have occurred in the last year. Hopefully, it won’t be long before the entire department is portrayed to reflect complete accuracy.

Naperville EONE E-ONE Typhoon engine

Naperville has three of these engines - Engine 2, Engine 5 and Engine 13

Naperville Spartan Crimson Engine 3

One of the most recent engines in Naperville. This is one of three identical units (Engine 3, Engine 7 and Engine 8).

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MABAS Division 4 – Revised Station/Apparatus Numbering

Lake County MABAS Division 4 has undergone a division wide systematic renumbering of stations and also the apparatus. This listing showing  revised station numbering  was forwarded by Bill Friedrich:
The county which consists of 26 fire departments and/or fire districts is divided into 4 quadrants. Each quad is represented by the first digit in the new numbering system. The second digit now represents the department within that quad and the final digit represents the station number for that particular department.

Abbott’s fire station is now Station 111

Beach Park is Station 121

Gurnee Stations 1 & 2 become Stations 131 & 132

Newport Stations 1 & 2 become Stations 141 & 142

North Chicago Stations 1 & 2 become Stations 151 & 152

Waukegan Stations 1-5 become Stations 161-165

Winthrop Harbor is now Station 171

Zion stations 1 & 2 become Stations 181 & 182

Great Lakes Naval Training Center Stations 1-3 become Stations 191-193

Antioch Stations 1-3  become Stations 211-213

Fox Lake Stations 1-3 become Stations 221-223

Lake Villa Stations 1-3 become Stations 241-243

Round Lake Stations 1-3 become Stations 261-263

Grayslake Stations 1 & 2 become Stations 271 & 272

Lake Zurich Stations 1-4 become Stations 321-324

Wauconda Stations 1-3 become Stations 341-343

Barrington Stations 1-3 become Stations 361-363

Countryside Stations 1 & 2 are now Stations 411 & 412

Lake Forest Stations 1 & 2 are now Stations 421 & 422

Mundelein Stations 1 & 2 are now Stations 431 & 432

Knollwood is now Station 441

Lake Bluff is Station 451

Libertyville Stations 1 & 2 are now Stations 461 & 462

The Buffalo Grove, Long Grove and Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Departments/Districts have previously renumbered their stations in conjunction with Northwest Central Dispatch (Buffalo Grove) or RED Center (Long Grove and Lincolnshire Riverwoods) and a re subsequently not participating in the new Lake County numbering system.

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1st Division 16 department has been added.

The Downer Grove Fire Department has been added to Division 16. Thanks to Bill Friedrich, all four stations (that’s 1,2,3 & 5 … there isn’t a #4 currently) are on the site with the exception of a few reserve rigs. Their fleet is ‘Chicago-style’ black over red and is predominantly made up of Pierce and Medtec units.

Engine 1 is the newest suppression piece in Downers Grove. It is a 2008 Pierce Impel 1500/500. Photo by Bill Friedrich

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Area fire departments with apparatus on order

Retired Downers Grove Battalion Chief Bill Friedrich is well known to many area fire departments because of his years of  documenting fire apparatus throughout Illinois. In order to remain knowledgeable about new apparatus, Bill keeps track of apparatus that has been ordered by area fire departments and the subsequent deliveries.  He has recently shared with us his current compilation which is broken down by truck manufacturer.  Although he watches the entire state, we will list here the Northern Illinois rigs whose departments will be listed on this site.

Due from Pierce:

  • Glencoe-pumper
  • Winfield FPD-pumper
  • Lansing-tower ladder
  • Morris FPD-pumper
  • West Chicago-tower ladder
  • Plainfield-pumper & pumper-tanker
  • Oswego FPD-tower ladder
  • Troy FPD-pumper
  • Wheaton-pumper
  • St. Charles-ladder
  • NW Homer FPD-pumper
  • Evanston-pumper
  • NIPAS (Northern Illinois Police Alarm System) Tactical Team-rescue
  • Matteson-ladder
  • South Holland-ladder.

Delivered from Pierce:

  • Lombard-pumper
  • Bedford Park-pumper

Due from E-ONE:

  • Barrington-pumper
  • Wilmette- tower ladder
  • Hanover Park-pumper
  • Oak Lawn-quint

Delivered from E-ONE:

  • Carol Stream Quest tower ladder
  • Wilmette Cyclone II tower ladder

Due from Sutphen:

  • Exxon Mobile Refinery, Joliet-ladder

Delivered from Sutphen:

  • Exxon Mobile, Joliet-pumper

Due from Ferrara:

  • Buffalo Grove-pumper & tower ladder
  • Algonquin-tower ladder
  • Nunda-pumper

Due from Toyne:

  • Spring Grove-pumper/tanker

Due from Smeal:

  • Winnetka-ladder

Due from SuperVac:

  • Cherry Valley-HDR

Due from Marion:

  • Oak Brook Terrace-pumper

Due from Alexis:

  • Manhattan-pumper
  • Carol Stream-squad
  • Elburn-squad

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New fire department added

After a long dry spell, the Aurora Township Fire Department (with 2 stations) has been added to the site under Division 13. Bill Friedrich provided images of both stations and the apparatus photos are by Larry Shapiro.

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site updates

The following updates have been added to previous posts:

Phoenix fire station (Karl Klotz)

Frankfort Museum rigs with details (Bill Friedrich)

Countryside Sta 1 – HT411 & E411 (Jack Connors)

CFD: Eng 13 and Eng 98 (Dennis McGuire, Jr.)

CFD: 2-7-4 & 6-3-2 (Karl Klotz)

CFD: Eng 69, Eng 86, 9-1-3 & 6-3-1 (Larry Shapiro)

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