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Merrionette Park Fire Department news

From the Merrionette Park Fire Department Facebook page:

For Immediate Release

May 20, 2021

The Merrionette Park Fire Department is pleased announce on May 20, 2021 at 7:00am, we upgraded our ambulance to Advanced Life Support. We will now have certified paramedics on shift twenty-four hours a day. This was a collaborative effort to enhance our services to the residents. I would like to thank Mayor Jose Nevarez and the Village Board of Trustees for their support of this program.

The Merrionette Park Fire Department started providing fire-based emergency medical services at a basic life support level in 1967 under Fire Chief Fred Eggert. In the last fifty-four years the Merrionette Park Fire Department has saved countless lives under the Basic Life Support System. Moving forward we will now be able to manage patients using advanced cardiac and respiratory techniques. We will also be able to administrate life saving medication and more efficiently manage the overall care of the patient. We look forward to serving our residents and neighbors with this new upgraded service.

Thomas J. Wendt
Fire Chief
Village of Merrionette Park

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As seen around … Merrionette Park

This from Chicagoland_fire_photos:

Truck 2604 is finally back in service 

Pierce Dash CF PUC quint fire truck

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As seen around … Merrionette Park

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Merrionette Park Fd station visit home to battalion 26, Engine 2613, Truck 2664 (out for maintenance),  Ambulance 2662, and Ambulance 2682 

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As seen around … Merrionette Park

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Merrionette Park FD ambulances. Dennis McGuire, Jr. photo

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New ambulance for Merrionette Park (more)

This from Dennis McGuire, Jr.

New Merrionette Park FD Ambulance 2682
2009 Ford(F-450)/Horton
Serial# 6-190913931
X-Lombard, Illinois
Replacing Ambulance 2672 the 2004 Ford(E-350)/McCoy-Miller

Merrionette Park FD Ambulance 2682

Merrionette Park FD Ambulance 2682 – 2009 Ford F-450/Horton
Serial# 6-190913931 X-Lombard. Dennis McGuire, Jr. photo

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New ambulance for Merrionette Park

This from Dennis McGuire, Jr:

Merrionette Park just purchased a used 2009 Ford F-450/Horton (X-Lombard, Illinois) to replace a 2004 Ford E-350/McCoy Miller. The  old ambulance was 2672 and the newer one will be 2682.

 

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Of interest … Scott Stewart

Excerpts from the ChicagoSunTimes.com:

In Scott Stewart’s home office, photographs from his career highlights cover three of the four walls. The 61-year-old was laid off in 2013 from his job as a Chicago Sun-Times photographer. After 28 years working for the newspaper, he had to shift to his former career as a firefighter. 

Stewart is a third-generation firefighter. His paternal grandfather worked for the Rome Fire Department while his uncle served the Cave Springs Fire Department, both in Georgia.  Stewart and his father spent their Sundays visiting Chicago firehouses because his father was a friend of Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert J. Quinn.

He lost his father at age 8 and his mother when he was 16. That’s when he received a call from Quinn, then head of the Chicago Civil Defense Fire and Rescue Division, who encouraged Stewart to volunteer. He spent the next decade as a volunteer where he rose to the rank of captain.

After his time as a volunteer, he met Cathy, his wife of 35 years, who was a volunteer for the Merrionette Park Fire Department.

Stewart picked up his first camera at age 8, and his neighbor Fred Stein helped nurture a lifelong passion. Their friendship led to Stewart’s first job in journalism at the Chicago Daily News, where Stein was a photographer. 

During the 70s, Stewart worked for Central Camera. His boss let him open up a credit line allowing him to purchase his first camera. After returning home, he heard sirens and headed to the corner of 55th and Hyde Park, where two CTA buses had crashed. He took pictures of the scene and offered the photos to the Daily News, Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune and The Associated Press. By the time the papers bought his pictures, he earned almost $500, enough to pay off the store credit.

He studied photojournalism at Columbia College and graduated in 1977.  Years later, Stewart was hired by the Sun-Times as a darkroom technician and then a photographer. He once flew on Air Force One during Ronald Reagan’s presidency where Reagan called him into the plane’s Oval Office to congratulate him on the birth of his daughter.

The next year, he was covering Chicago violence which ultimately lead to a 2011 Pulitzer Prize. As school children walked on the sidewalk across the street from a liquor store, four gang members stood outside the shop and one had a gun. His photo captured a gun and drug deal, with the children in view.

Stewart’s 28-years with the Sun-Times ended on May 30, 2013 when the newspaper dismissed its photography staff.  He worked at the Evergreen Park Fire Department as head of the photo unit after the layoff, but couldn’t find work as a full-time photographer. Merrionette Park offered him his old job as a firefighter where he was recently promoted to lieutenant. In addition to working as Evergreen Park’s photographer, he’s a member of the MABAS Division 21 Cause and Origin Team.

He worked six jobs at one point, but all those efforts to pay the bills came to a screeching halt in March. Stewart was out of work after being diagnosed with a detached retina. He received an emergency vitrectomy in April that left him recovering for nine weeks. A short time later his retina was detached again. Another doctor promised he’d return to photography, and a second operation left him with a long recovery and no work for another six weeks. An online fundraising page helped him through that troubling time.

Despite everything Stewart says he wouldn’t change any of it. He’s stayed positive with the help of his three favorite things: photography, the fire department, and his beloved Cathy. He’ll always be a photographer and fire fan, and he having found a way to merge both passions into one.

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4-Alarm fire in Calumet Park, 12-8-17 (more)

This from Brad Steinweg:

Pictures from Cal Park’s 4-11. Due to horrible traffic on I-94 I did not get there until most of the fire was knocked. Got a few apparatus photos though.

-Brad S.

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4-Alarm fire in Calumet Park, 12-8-17

This from Eric Haak:

I arrived at this incident in Calumet Park just short of an hour and a half after the first in engine. The rear of the building was brought under control about 10 minutes after I arrived and after that, there was not much firefighting left to shoot other than rigs. 

Alsip fire engine at fire scene

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huge flames during apartment building fire

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huge flames during apartment building fire

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Riverdale fire engine at fire scene

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elevated master streams battle fire

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Merrionette Park fire truck at fire scene

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Orland Fire District ladder truck at work

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Merrionette Park Fire Department news

From the Merrionette Park Fire Department Facebook page:

“This morning Truck Company 2664 and Deputy Chief 2610 Richard C Musil
assisted the Robbins Fire Department with a residential structure fire.”

house fire in Robbins IL

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fire truck at night fire scene

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