Archive for April 23rd, 2018

Elgin Fire Department news

Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:

Elgin Firefighter Shay Brill was awarded a medal of merit for pulling over while off-duty to help a Cook County sheriff’s deputy hit by a drunken driver on Interstate 90.

He was driving alone on Interstate 90 near Arlington Heights Road when he saw a car zip past him on the right, cross over all three lanes of traffic and crash into two squad cars stopped by the median. The deputies had finished pulling over another driver, who had just left. He says he didn’t do much other than divert traffic, feel the officer’s pulse, and talk to him to try to calm him down. The officer, who had to be extricated from his totaled vehicle, suffered two broken ribs, a concussion, and head lacerations. 

Earlier in the evening, Brill’s kids were injured when the vehicle driven by his daughter rolled over three times after a gust of wind blew it off the road near Hampshire. Brill and his wife rushed to the scene, arriving at the same time as paramedics, and finding their daughter unconscious and their son with a fractured femur and tibia. He helped put his daughter on a board and do a quick trauma assessment. Both kids were transported to Sherman Hospital, where doctors decided the girl should be moved to Lutheran General Hospital.

 

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Still & Box Alarm fire in Chicago, 4-22-18 (more)

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National Missing Children’s Day Event in Glenview, 5-19-18

This from Bill Golden:

Glenview Police & Fire are having an event for Missing Children Day, May 19th. Are there any antique fire apparatus owners who would like to display equipment at the event? I’m bringing one or two antique police cars. It’s a small event.

Thank you

National Missing Children's Day Event in Glenview IL

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Still & Box Alarm fire in Chicago, 4-22-18

 

 

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