Steve Redick photo
Some quick video from Steve Redick at the 2-11 Alarm fire 10-14-19 at 817 W Gunnison Street in Chicago
Archive for October, 2019
Niles Fire Department news
Oct 14
Excerpts from the journal-topics.com:
The Niles Arts & Culture Advisory Council is overseeing efforts to install at least three and possibly four murals in prominent locations around the village including one on the wall of Fire Station No. 2: a 12-ft. by 50-ft. mural dedicated to firefighters.
The same day firefighters hosted an open house and pancake breakfast at Station No. 3 on Jarvis Avenue last month, large aluminum panels were installed on Station No. 2’s exterior wall along Cumberland. The artist got to work crafting an image depicting firefighters’ missions of saving lives, education and firefighting which includes an ambulance, a firefighter in turnout gear holding a smoke detector and talking to children, and a pair of boots as they typically are lined up ready to step into at a moment’s notice.
Artists are being paid $1,000 for design and $1,500 for labor for murals at the three sites.
Niles Fire Department photo
As seen around … Chicago
Oct 14
This from Danny Nelms:
Heres a few photos of rigs at the Truck 36 100th anniversary on saturday 10-12-19 as well as Tower 23 and Engine 79 out and out the same morning.
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
Danny Nelms photo
From the Buffalo Grove Professional Firefighters and Paramedics Local 3177 Facebook page:
The Buffalo Grove Fire Department is currently seeking applicants for the position of Firefighter/Paramedic. There will be multiple hires from this list. Please spread the word. Here is the application portal. Good luck!
From the E-ONE Facebook page
The Oswego Fire Protection District has taken delivery of its third consecutive E-ONE Rescue Pumper to serve its community located south of Chicago. The customization – including the cable controls on its side mount pumper – is what firefighters like most about this apparatus. “The key is E-ONE Is a custom fire truck manufacturer and they’re willing to build the apparatus how we like it.” Learn more in this video. #EONEstrength #firetrucks #firefighters #pumpers #Illinois
This from Max Weingardt:
Highland Park Fire Department at a garbage fire on Friday morning at 1325 park ave
Max Weingardt photo
Max Weingardt photo
Max Weingardt photo
This from Steve Redick:
820 s 17th Ave 10/12/19 in Maywood
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
Steve Redick photo
New ambulance for Chicago
Oct 13
This from Danny Nelms:
Anderson Dnalf shared these photos of the new Ambulance 7
FDC-2722019 Ford F-450/Wheeled Coach
Anderson Dnalf photo
Anderson Dnalf photo
Niles Fire Department news
Oct 12
Excerpts from the journal-topics.com:
When people call 911 for ambulance service in Niles, their insurance company is charged a fee. Officials are considering increasing those fees to insurance companies after a proposal to set a flat $1,500 charge for paramedic ambulance service within the village.
Currently there is a tiered system for billing Niles residents versus non-residents with differing charges for basic life support, advanced life support. Charges range from $500 for basic life support for a Niles resident to a $1,150 charge for advanced life support for a non resident. All vehicles responding to medical calls in Niles are considered top advanced life support, making a tiered system outdated.
Most North and Northwest suburban communities are now charging insurers $1,500 for all ambulance calls. The proposed change would bring Niles in line with those other communities. The proposal would include balanced billing, meaning that if the insurance company pays less than the entire amount, the village would accept the insurers payment and would not bill the patient for the difference. Under the proposal, charges would apply to Niles patients even if they were treated and transported by paramedics from another fire department responding to Niles as part of local mutual aid agreements.
Asked about charges for a non-insured patient who is transported by firefighters, the fire chief said, “It goes to billing. Each person would be looked at individually. The village can walk away (from collecting a bill), but it’s a process worked out with the billing company.”
The proposal may also need finance committee review before it is brought to trustees at a village board meeting for a final vote.
Excerpts from the nwherald.com:
After the departure of the Harvard Fire Protection District administrative assistant, the board of trustees is considering a partnership with a public accounting firm to perform administrative and financial services.
They received a presentation from Lauterbach and Amen LLP – which provides administrative services for the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District, the Cary Police Pension Fund board, and Crystal Lake Fire Department. Before the board moved forward with hiring an administrative assistant, they wanted to explore the firm’s services to see if it could improve some of the weaknesses in the district’s system. For $700 a month, the firm would prepare board meeting agendas and packets for trustees, transcribe meeting minutes, maintain the district’s digital records while making arrangements for the potential destruction of paper copies of files plus maintaining the district’s website. For an extra $100 a month, a representative would be in attendance for board meetings. The firm also could provide financial services to the fire district, such as budget assistance, audit preparation and tax levy documentation.
Fees for financial services generally are between $1,000 and $1,500 a month but the firm would have to determine how many bills the fire protection district pays a month and what software is used before it can come up with an exact number.
