From Hazel Crest IAFF Local #4087 Facebook page;
The Hazel Crest FD recently took delivery of their brand new Spartan Engine! This will be the new Engine 27. It will be placed in service in the next 30-45 days after lettering, tool, and hose placement. One year from today, we will be taking delivery of our new 107 ft aerial ladder.. The new Truck 27!! Welcome to the fleet!
Hazel Crest FD photo
Hazel Crest FD photo
Hazel Crest FD photo
Hazel Crest FD photo
thanks Martin
From macqueengroup.com:
Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD – Job: #38819 | Illinois | Enforcer PUC HDR
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This from Chi-Town Fire Photos:
Here is an updated shot of Thornton Engine 45. It’s a 1996 HME 1871/Custom Fire 1500/500/50′ Tele-Squrt. x-T747 that used to be green.
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Oct 10
Found at govdeals.com:
1994 Pierce Arrow – 75′ Snorkel
$5,000.00 USDCloses: 20d 8h (Oct 30, 2024 06:00 PM CDT)$50.00 USD Bid Increment
9.2L L6 DIESEL. 6 person seating, 3 SCBA seats.
Starts, runs, operates as supposed to, run weekly since taken OOS 7/23. Engine hrs will be higher than 3568 due to this.
75′ Snorkel aerial with 4″ waterway and breathing air both operational and tested by UL in 2023. Aerial hours 1211.7.
1250 GPM Waterous pump. Passed pump test in 2023 pump hours 97.
No tank on apparatus, 2 1 1/2″ crosslays, storage area for up to 800′ of 4″ LDH.
Ladders stay on apparatus, 1 – 35″ 3 piece, 1 – 24′ 2 piece, 2 – 16′ roof ladders, 1 – 14″ roof ladder, 1 – 14′ attic extension ladder and 1 – 10′ folding ladder.
1 onboard Onan Diesel 7500 watt generator, runs off of apparatus diesel tank, powers 2 cord reels and multiple other onboard outlets.
All remaining tools and equipment still on apparatus sold with rig. Tools, poles, fittings, fans etc.
All extra parts and equipment for apparatus will be included in sale along with manuals and service records.
Service done as per maintenance schedules and all testing done annually as prescribed.
Geneva FD photo
Geneva FD photo
thanks Martin
Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:
As Floridians wake up and have a clearer look at the extent of the damage from Hurricane Milton, help is on the way.
Local crews and volunteers from Illinois are heading to Florida to support Milton relief efforts.
MABAS Illinois crews gathered near I-57 at the Wilmington and Peotone exits before heading south.
The team debriefed before 25 crew members and vehicles dispersed. ComEd also sent 60 underground employees to help repair damage and restore service down south.
Governor JB Pritzker said members of Illinois’ Emergency Management Team are also ready to deploy for clean up as soon as they’re needed.
From CFDMike:
Photos from Evanston’s working house fire at 2623 Harrison
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More photos can be found HERE
Excerpts from the dailyherald.com:
An unfair labor practices complaint filed by Mount Prospect’s firefighters union against the village is slated to receive a hearing.
The union claims the village first approved and then, in its reaction to press coverage and a Facebook post by the union, denied the union a booth to use for fundraising at the village’s annual downtown block party in July.
The Illinois Labor Relations Board told both sides it will assign the case to an administrative law judge, who will set a hearing date.
The village has filed a response to the allegations, objecting to several claims.
Mount Prospect Firefighters International Association of Fire Fighters Local 4119 charges the village violated a section of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act.
The complaint states that a member of the union’s social committee, Tim Skalon, emailed the village about the possibility of the union obtaining a booth.
According to the complaint, Skalon told Mount Prospect Fire Chief John Dolan the union recently established a local chapter of a not-for-profit organization supporting children with critical illnesses, and wanted to use the booth to raise funds for the charity.
The fire chief told union leaders the village approved the request July 8, but a week later texted them to “stand down on the block party request,” according to the complaint.
The complaint also states Dolan told union leaders the village didn’t want to set precedence by allowing a union booth.
Union officials believe the change of heart only came after they had protested on Facebook and in a newspaper article about the relocation of a fire engine from one station to another the department had recently taken over from the Elk Grove Rural Fire Protection District.
In its response to the complaint, village officials argued permission had never been granted for the booth, and disputed accusations the denial was retaliation for their protests.
thanks Rob
Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:
One person was critically injured in a fire at an Evanston home on Monday evening. Firefighters responded to a building in the 2600-block of Harrison Street around 6 p.m.
When crews arrived, they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the building, and people were evacuating.
Firefighters rescued a person from the building’s second floor. That person, who suffered severe burns, was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
No firefighters were injured.
Excerpts from fox32chicago.com:
“Cancer rates are significantly higher than that of the general public,” said Michael Oquendo, Chief of Logistics for the Chicago Fire Department.
That’s because the smoke firefighters encounter is increasingly comprised of potentially carcinogenic chemicals from petroleum products, which stick to firefighting gear even after it’s washed with water.
Which is where a new machine comes in. It’s called a high-pressure liquid carbon dioxide cleaner.
The Chicago Fire Department is one of the first in the country to get one, and it will be used to hi-tech clean 4,200 sets of firefighting gear every three months.
The new CO2 cleaning machines are massive, weighing 27,000 pounds, and they cost between $1.5 to $2 million apiece. The first machine is being kept on Chicago’s Southwest Side at a PPE cleaning facility that contracts with the department to wash and repair uniforms.
The goal is to make the lifesaving gear safer for firefighters.
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