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Lake Villa E 244 2013 Pierce Arrow XT 1500/1000. Set to run out of station 4 when opened
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Lake Villa’s new Pierce engine alongside the old Mack CF/Pierce engine. Jeff Rudolph photo
Posts Tagged Lake Villa Fire Department
New engine for Lake Villa
Sep 19
The first in a series of updates to the website:
The following departments have had apparatus images updated:
- Evanston Fire Department – all stations
- Skokie Fire Department – all stations
- Winnetka FIre Department – new & reserve ambulances
- Des Plaines Fire Department – Tower 83
- Niles Fire Department – Station 2
- Newport Township Fire District – new ambulance
- Lake Villa Fire District – new ambulance (sta 2)
- McHenry Township Fire Protection District – all stations
New ambulance for Lake Villa
Jul 19
This from Jeff Rudolph:
2013 Chevy Express/AEV. Numbered as A242R for now, it will be A244 when the new station opens in the fall. No more white and blue ambulances left. J.Rudolph
New ambulance for the Lake Villa Fire Department. Jeff Rudolph photo
This from Jeff Rudolph:
some shots from Lake Villa. Jeff R
04/20/13 11:45 39717 Wittenburg. Lake Villa pulled box 24-61 to the 2nd alarm for tenders. They had a large metal garage/shop fully involved. Several antique cars undergoing restoration where stored inside. All was a total loss.
Lake Villa firefighters opening a wall. Jeff Rudolph photo
Lake Villa Engine 243 in front of the building supplying several hand lines. Jeff Rudolph photo
Heavy smoke pushes through the roof of the structure. Jeff Rudolph photo
Lake Villa Fire Department Engine 243. Jeff Rudolph photo
Firefighters douse hot spots. Jeff Rudolph photo
Newport Twp FPD Tanker 1470 dumps into a portable tank. Jeff Rudolph photo
Tenders in staging at the Lake Villa 2nd alarm fire. Jeff Rudolph photo
Lake Villa firefighters with 2 1/2 inch line. Jeff Rudolph photo
Jeff Rudolph visited the Lake Villa Fire District recently and submitted updated images of several ambulances, two of which have been repainted to match the fire district colors. The units were previously owned and purchased by the Lake Villa Rescue Squad and were blue and white. The rescue squad has since merged under the fire district and all apparatus is red. Refer to the previous post HERE and HERE for much of the information.
One of the repainted units is this 2010 Ford E-450/Osage ambulance in Lake Villa running as Ambulance 241R. Jeff Rudolph photo
Lake Villa Ambulance 241 is a 2011 Ford E-450/Osage Type III. Jeff Rudolph photo
Lake Villa Ambulance 243 is a 2009 Ford E-450/Osage Type III that was also repainted. Jeff Rudolph photo
The 2010 Ford E-450/Osage ambulance that was photographed here as Ambulance 241 is currently assigned as Ambulance 241R. Hank Sajovic photo
New Ambulances in Lake Villa
Mar 20
The Lake Villa Fire District received two new ambulances. They are Type III units built in 2011 by Osage on Ford E-450 chassis. According to information received by Jeff Rudolph, neither of them are numbered yet and both identical. As best as can be determined, Ambulance 243, the 05′ was retired. Old Ambulance 242 became Ambulance 244, Ambulance 244 became Ambulance 245. It is not clear where old Ambulance 241 went. The two new units will be assigned to Ambulances 241 and 242.
As reported HERE, the new ambulances are painted red. This is a departure from the current ambulance fleet that is painted blue and white and was purchased as part of the Lake Villa Rescue Squad.
Lake Villa took delivery of two 2011 Type III ambulances from Osage on E-450 Ford chassis. This unit will be assigned as Ambulance 242. These are the first red ambulances in Lake Villa. Jeff Rudolph photo
The new ambulance will replace the current, 2010 Osage built ambulance that is assigned to Ambulance 242. This unit is being reassigned as Ambulance 244 which is the second ambulance out of Station 2.
Lake Villa is on the site
Oct 18
Another Lake County (Division 4) department has been added to the site. The Lake Villa Fire Department/Lake Villa Fire District/Lake Villa Rescue Squad is an interesting marriage of resources and organizations. Together, they currently occupy three fire stations in Lake Villa and Lindenhurst. The downtown station and most of the apparatus assigned there is owned by the Lake Villa Fire Department which is a private organization. They do their own fundraising in addition to being paid for contract services from the Lake Villa Fire District. The other two stations and the fire vehicles in them are owned by the Lake Villa Fire District. The ambulances in all three stations which are white and blue, are owned and staffed by the Lake Villa Rescue Squad.
The Lake Villa Fire Department station which has been expanded three times since the original building was constructed. Photo by Hank Sajovic
The Lake Villa Fire Department station in downtown Lake Villa is an interesting building which has had three separate additions built over the years. The building now has eight bays. Each two bay addition has an engraved stone with the year of that particular addition.
All of the fire suppression equipment with the exception of a 1973 CF-Mack/Welch was made by Pierce. This includes four engines, a pumper/squad, a 105′ ladder, and two tankers of which all but one are on Dash chassis. The newest piece is a 2009, Arrow XT engine at station 1.
The rescue squad currently has five Ford/Osage Type III ambulances which are painted in the traditional rescue squad color scheme of blue and white. As mentioned in a previous post HERE, there are two new ambulances on order and they will be red, and lettered for the Lake Villa Fire District as are the current units.
The Mack/Pierce engine shortly after it was purchased. It was Engine 2420 at the time, was purchased by the FIre Department and did not have the Wil-Burt Nightscan mounted on the roof. Lake Villa had been a Mack customer for many years. When Mack stopped building fire trucks, many of its customers continued to buy the CF chassis with other companies completing the unit. Lake Villa's transition to Pierce began with this unit. By the time they were ready to purchase their next vehicle, Mack was no longer offering the CF chassis. Photo by Larry Shapiro
This engine from Annandale, NJ is an example of a four-door fabricated by Mack. The rear doors are recessed, flat, and cover the step. The engine was originally built in 1981 and was updated and refurbished in 1996 by The Swab Wagon Company. Larry Shapiro photo
There are three rather uniquely interesting units on the roster in Lake Villa. One is a 1933 Pirsch antique that’s in great shape. The other two units are a throw back to a time when all of the Lake Villa engines were built by Mack on CF chassis. They have a 1973 CF-Mack that was refurbished with a new body complete with high-side compartments by Welch, and the other is a 1989/1990 CF-Mack/Pierce combination. One trait which makes this unit especially nice is the four-door conversion which was fabricated by Pierce. When Mack enclosed the CF cab with four doors, the rear doors were flat, straight, and set in from the contour of the body by several inches. Pierce fabricated the enclosure using a set of front doors for the rear of the cab which kept the same contours and body lines of the cab from the front to the rear.
This is one of the CF Mack engines that preceded the Pierce units in Lake Villa. Engine 621 as shown here was built in 1969 and carried 750 gallons of water with a 1,000-GPM pump. Larry Shapiro photo
