McHenry Township Fire District news

This from Michael Maida:

I attended the McHenry Township Fire District Station 5 grand opening. The station will have a engine, ambulance, brush truck, and two trailers. The engine is a 2009 Pierce. There will be 5 firefighters/paramedics on duty at a time. I had the opportunity to witness the flag raising ceremony and the engine backing into quarters. The neat thing with this station is whenever they get a call, there are red LED light strips in the ceilings that light up for 90 seconds.

Engine 42 was also at the open house, I was able to stop by station 1 and get a picture of the new Ambulance 51,

Sincerely,

Mike Maida

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fire engine being pushed into new fire station

Michael Maida photo

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While I was at the open house, Engine 42 responded to a EMS run. I was told they receive around 5,000 calls a year and 80% are EMS.

Mike

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This entry was posted on December 3, 2016, 3:30 PM and is filed under Fire Department News, FIre Stations. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Comments

#1 by shane on December 5, 2016 - 4:49 PM

Jim…

Station 1 runs a 3 person engine and a 2 person ambulance and has the shift commander. they also have the dive rig, boats and truck out of this station
Station 2 runs a 3 person engine and a 2 person ambulance
Station 3 is a 3 person jump company
Station 4 runs a 3 person engine and 2 person ambulance
Station 5 runs a 3 person engine and a 2 person ambulance

I’ve heard from personal there that they may be going to all jump companies soon
#2 by Deputy Chief Spraker on December 5, 2016 - 4:30 PM

Station #1 – 7 personnel (E41 – 3 personnel / A51 – 3 personnel / Battalion 12)
Station #2 – 3 personnel jump company (Engine / Tanker / Brush / Ambulance)
Station #3 – 3 personnel jump company (Engine / Tanker / Ambulance)
Station #4 – 3 personnel jump company (Engine / Tanker / Ambulance)
Station #5 – 3 personnel jump company (Engine / Brush / Ambulance)
Total personnel on duty = 19
#3 by Jim on December 5, 2016 - 1:06 PM

What is their current staffing? What is their station staffing? Jump companies?
#4 by Mike D on December 4, 2016 - 11:20 AM

That is an amazing department. They are progressive and very well trained. Explosive growth in the area. I am a firefighter out of state now, but grew up in Johnsburg and have several friends who are active and retired members. Very strong group.