From the Pierce Flickr page:
Pierce, New Lenox, 33254-1
Pierce composite
thanks Ron
Archive for November, 2019
New engine for New Lenox
Nov 13
The Waukegan Fire Department currently has three new units on order. They are expecting a Seagrave Marauder engine any day now. Seagrave is also building an Aerialscope for them and Rosenbauer is building an ARFF for the Waukegan Airport.
This from Chi-Town Fire Photos:
Here are a few shots of the Dive Box in Forest View on Friday. Not sure what the outcome of this was, but there was a ton of M/A companies from Divisions 10, 11, & 12. The incident was at 5700 w 41st street.
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Chi-Town Fire photos
Joliet Fire Department news
Nov 10
Excerpts from wjol.com:
The Joliet Fire Department is receiving $200,000 from the state loan program for new equipment.
The Ambulance Revolving Loan is designed to assist departments or cities in purchasing emergency equipment they may not be able to otherwise afford. It is administered by the Illinois State Fire Marshal and Illinois Finance Authority. Under the ARLP program, units of local government like municipalities, townships, fire departments, fire protection districts and certain categories of not-for-profit organizations can apply for no-interest or low-interest loans of up to $200,000 to spend on equipment. These loans must be repaid in 10 years.
Lockport FPD news
Nov 10
From the Lockport FPD website:
OFI 1 ex- ambulance 3 & Minooka ambulance
Lockport FPD photo
thanks Hunter
Chicago Fire Department news
Nov 10
Recent accident involving Truck 16
unknown photographer
photographer unknown
Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
Elgin Fire Chief Dave Schmidt will leave Jan. 3 after 30 years with the department and start Jan. 6 as chief of the Carrboro Fire Department in North Carolina .
Schmidt became a lieutenant in 2000, captain in 2005, and assistant chief of operations in 2011.
He is particularly proud of the changes in technology he helped implement. When he started, he was teaching firefighters what a personal computer was and how to use it. Now all Elgin fire vehicles are equipped with mobile computers and Wi-Fi hot spots. Cardiac monitors, for example, can send reports wirelessly to paramedics’ tablets for importation into reports rather than having to print out long strips of paper that would be taped to a piece of copy paper.
He is also proud of his 15 years of work with the department’s academy, which trained firefighters for Elgin and other cities.
Asked for an example of how he learned from a bad call, Schmidt recalled the April 2001 mass shooting at JB’s Pub, in which a man shot 18 people, killing two of them. His ambulance was the second on the scene and ended up taking the shooter to a hospital for treatment.
thanks Ron
From the Foster Coach Sales website:
Foster Coach Sales photos
thanks Rob B
Excerpts from the dailynorthwestern.com:
The Evanston Fire Department (EFD) and public health officials urged residents to learn about the state’s new smoke detector law, which requires residents to install an alarm with a 10-year sealed battery by 2022.
The EFD worked with the Illinois General Assembly to pass the law because of the number of deaths that occur in Illinois homes without smoke detectors. In 2018, 70 percent of the residential fire deaths were in homes without smoke detectors.
Evanston Fire Chief Brian Scott said that though the number of people killed in fires has decreased in the past, people are more likely to die in a residential fire than they were years ago. The majority of deaths are caused by smoke inhalation, which can be prevented by people escaping faster.
