Bloomingdale Fire Station 1 on Bloomingdale Road houses the fire department headquarters and the emergency dispatch center. Larry Shapiro photo
The Bloomingdale Fire Protection District No 1 in MABAS Division 12 has been added to the site. Bloomingdale has three stations though one is strictly used for storage. Station 2 at 6N480 Keeney Road (which has a Roselle address) was originally part of the Keeneyville Fire District. This station has two spare engines and an out-of-service ambulance which may be converted to a dive unit.
This out-of-service ambulance might be converted into a newer dive unit to replace Dive 9 which is assigned a 1997 Freightliner FL50/Medtec. Larry Shapiro photo
Bloomingdale has their own dispatch center in the basement of Station 1 which serves Bloomingdale in addition to the Elk Grove Township Fire Protection District and theItasca Fire Protection District.
Bloomingdale runs a fleet of Pierce apparatus which includes a tower ladder and three engines on a Lance chassis, one engine on an Enforcer chassis, and an engine on a Quantum chassis. They have on order a 2,000-gallon pumper/tanker on a Velocity chassis which is due this year. The two in-service ambulances as well as the Dive Squad all feature boxes built by Horton.
The newest engine in Bloomingdale is this 2005 Pierce Quantum assigned to Engine 1. John Tulipano photo
Prior to becoming a Pierce customer, Bloomingdale was exclusively a Pirsch customer for many years. In 1981, they received the last engine on a custom Pirsch chassis that matched two engines and a 1972 85′ mid-ship quint.
In 1981, Bloomingdale Engine 2 featured the last custom cab built by hand at the Pirsch factory in Kenosha. From this point forward, Pirsch purchased stock cabs from Truck Cab Manufacturers (TCM) and applied a trim package to make their appearance unique to Pirsch products. Larry Shapiro collection
Bloomingdale Truck 4 was built in 1972 to match one Pirsch engine already in the Bloomingdale fleet complete with the edge warning lights. They would later have a total of four matching custom Pirsch units. Larry Shapiro collection
#1 by John C on August 1, 2011 - 1:05 AM
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#2 by mike on July 31, 2011 - 11:40 PM
waukegan fire is a joke
#3 by chris on July 31, 2011 - 5:14 PM
You people suck! I gave you information about a new rig in Waukegan and you disregard it. Yes I don’t have a picture but you could still put the information out. And you don’t even have a way to contact you because your website doesn’t allow it
#4 by Drew Smith on July 30, 2011 - 2:07 PM
The classic Pirsch handrail which wraps the sides and roof of the open jump seat was the undoing of Pirsch. In a lawsuit filed against Pirsch in the 1980s (about the same time the original NFPA 1500 was adopted and banned open jump seats) a widow alleged that the handrail encouraged standing in the jump seat area and that was why her husband’s injury and subsequent death was negligent. Shortly after this lawsuit Pirsch went out of business. Related info: http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/news/fullstory/newsid/13896