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Local departments represented at FDIC

Apr 10

Posted by Admin in Fire Truck photos | 12 Comments

Karl Klotz and Tim Olk submitted some images of local units on display at the FDIC in Indianapolis

Chicago Ridge Ambulance 6502 in the Road Rescue booth. Karl Klotz photo

Westchester Rescue 25 in the E-ONE booth. Karl Klotz photo

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Broadview Battalion 5. Tim Olk photo

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As seen around … Chicago

Mar 28

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, Fire Truck photos | 18 Comments

This from Dennis McGuire, Jr.:

New CFD ambulances. Dennis McGuire, Jr. photo

This from Tim Olk:

X-Antioch FD squad re-lettered and painted as Chicago FD Squad 3 for the Chicago Fire TV show. Tim Olk photo

This from Josh Boyajian:

New Buggies are being readied for 2-2-2, Battalion 8 and Battalion 7, plus new Ambulances for 89 and 13. The light bars on the buggies have blue lights on the corners.

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Countryside FPD 2nd Alarm haz mat box 3-19-14

Mar 19

Posted by Admin in Hazardous Materials Incident, Motor vehicle accident, Towing and Recovery | No Comments

The Countryside FPD requested a 2nd Alarm Hazardous Materials Box this morning after a truck trailer tipped over in Vernon Hills. The Daily Herald has this information:

A section of one of central Lake County’s busiest roads was shut down for several hours Wednesday, snarling morning rush-hour motorists, after a truck’s trailer tipped over in Vernon Hills.

No one was seriously injured in the 6:20 a.m. accident on Route 60 at Butterfield Road, said Batallion Chief Kevin Wodrich of the Countryside Fire Protection District.

The truck was pulling two trailers. One of the trailers tipped onto its side as the truck was turning from southbound Butterfield Road onto eastbound Route 60, Vernon Hills police said.

The Con-way Freight truck was hauling two 300-gallon tanks of potassium hydroxide and two 300-gallon tanks of phosphoric acid, the fire department said in a news release, and the tanks leaked. A hazardous-materials team stopped the leaks so workers could clean up the mess.

Tim Olk was at the scene and submitted several images.

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heavy wrecker tow trucks upright truck trailer

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Wood Dale burn down

Mar 9

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Training | No Comments

Images from Tim Olk from a turndown in Wood Dale.

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Truck fire in Chicago, 3-2-14

Mar 4

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire | 2 Comments

This from Tim Olk:

State DOT snow plow burns at 59th and the Dan Ryan Expressway

Illinois State DOT snow plow catches fire

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Box Alarm fire in Winnetka, 2-26-14 (more)

Feb 27

Posted by Admin in Fire Scene photos, Fire Scene video | No Comments

More on last night’s house fire in Winnetka. A video from Larry Shapiro and some images from Tim Olk at the scene this morning.

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more images were posted to fire scenes.net

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Firefighter training – car fires

Feb 21

Posted by Admin in Training | 2 Comments

Tim Olk was at NIPSTA this week while the class was working with car fires. Here are several images from the evolutions.

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Working fire in Burnham, 2-18-14

Feb 20

Posted by Admin in Apparatus on-scene, Fire Scene photos | No Comments

Tim Olk took in a fire Tuesday night at the Cal Side Marina in south suburban Burnham. The fire was handled quickly with the assistance of Calumet City and South Holland companies.

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New squad for MESS Canteen

Feb 19

Posted by Admin in Fire Service News, Fire Truck photos | 3 Comments

From Tim Olk:

The new Mess Canteen M-5 , quartered at the Barrington Countryside FPD station on Pepper Road, is X-Woodstock FRD. One of the features of the new unit is slide-out trays for supplies at deployments replacing the need for folding tables alongside the squad.