The Palos Heights Fire Protection District has been added to MABAS Division 19. This now completes all of Division 19 departments. Palos Heights has two stations with 22 career personnel covering 4.5 square miles. Each station has a jump company that will staff the engine or ambulance. The ambulance is staffed by two and the officer follows in 6408 or 6418.
Engines are from American LaFrance or Pierce, and the ambulances are either Medtec or Road Rescue. Palos Heights does not have an aerial unit. They also maintain a retire ambulance for their dive team.
Palos Heights Fire Protection District headquarters station 1 at 12300 S. Harlem Avenue. Karl Klotz photo
Palos Heights Fire Protection District Engine 6403, a 2005 American LaFrance Eagle which runs out of Station 1. Karl Klotz photo
Palos Heights Fire Protection District Engine 6413 which runs out of Station 2. Larry Shapiro photo
#1 by Jim on August 25, 2014 - 2:57 AM
So they have the same manpower system as Blue Island
Does with the jump companies correct? They’ll have 3 guys manning each station to either staff the ambulance or engine depending
On the nature of the call?
#2 by Dennis on October 16, 2012 - 9:02 AM
@Keith…Yes
#3 by Keith Grzadziel on October 16, 2012 - 5:41 AM
Did they get rid of their Truck?