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From a reader in response to the devastation and fires in Southern California
From Steve Redick:
2-11 Alarm at Drummond & Central. I arrived about 40 minutes after the 2-11 was requested.
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Excerpts from the Dailyherald.com:
A year after Patrick Tanner graduated from Warren High School in 1983, he was back at school, as an 18-year-old, on-call Gurnee firefighter battling a December blaze that destroyed his alma mater.
A little more than 40 years later, Tanner will retire Jan. 10 as the fire chief at the West Chicago Fire Protection District (WEGO), a position held since November 2014. He spent 19 years as a full-time firefighter with the Highland Park Fire Department, passing his first test at 19 years old. He moved up the ladder as paramedic, lieutenant, deputy chief, and in 2010 was promoted to fire chief, where he served until joining West Chicago as fire chief.
In 2020, Tanner was the founding chief of the K9/Drone Search and Rescue Strike Team, which uses canine officers and drones to search for lost or missing people. Dispatched out of Northbrook, the Search and Rescue Strike Team has members in nine fire departments from Glenview to Tinley Park.In another collaboration, the West Chicago Fire Protection District is part of the West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance, joining departments from Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Glenside (Glendale Heights, Glen Ellyn Countryside), Hanover Park, Roselle, Wheaton, and Winfield in serving more than 300,000 DuPage County residents.Tanner also helped coordinate logistics for Illinois’ relief response around New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Deputy Chief Jeffery Keefe, who has been with the district since June 2002 ,will be sworn in as the new fire chief.
Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
Patrick Kane
Wauconda Fire District Chief Patrick Kane, who started as a part-time firefighter in 1995, is retiring Jan. 20. He is a Marine Corps veteran, and was hired by the Wauconda Fire Department as a full-time firefighter/paramedic in 1999. After the department merged into the fire district, he subsequently was promoted to lieutenant in 2009, battalion chief in 2016, and deputy chief in 2019.
He continued efforts already underway to implement the Mobile Integrated Healthcare program, which utilizes firefighter/paramedics to provide “pre-emergency” medical outreach. It is meant as a preemptive measure to provide patient service to avoid the unintentional misuse of the emergency medical system, according to the district. Wauconda and four other area departments partner with Northwest Community EMS System in the program, which is funded through grants from health and civic organizations, Lake County and area hospitals.
Curt Hanselman
Kane will be succeeded by Curt Hanselman, a deputy chief with the Arlington Heights Fire Department who was chosen from among 53 candidates and is the first chief hired from outside the department.
Hanselman has 30 years of experience and has been deputy chief in Arlington Heights since 2021. He has a bachelor of science degree in fire administration from Columbia Southern University and will complete a master’s in fire executive leaders this year. He holds the chief fire officer designation from the state and Center for Public Safety Excellence and has numerous state and national operational certifications.
From Roselle FD facebook page;
New year, new ambulance! Our new $327,313 ambulance was ordered April 2022 to replace our current frontline ambulance, which ran for 100,000 miles. Our current ambulance will be moved to backup status. We look forward to serving Roselle in our new ambulance!
Roselle FD photo
thanks Martin
Found at publicsurplus.com:
Auction #3646595 – 2015 FORD EXPLORER
Current Price $1,000.00
Time Left 3 hours 17 mins
# of Bids 6
First Offer $100.00Auction Started: Jan 6, 2025 10:30 AM MSTAuction Ends: Jan 8, 2025 02:00 PM MST
Note: This auction might extendMileage: 103,962VIN: 1FM5K8AR1FGA22080Running Condition: UNKNOWNEngine: 3.7 Li 6VTransmission: 6 AutomaticNOTE: NO KEY; NEEDS REPLACEMENT VALVE BODY. FLUIDS, PTU ASSEMBLY, LOWER ENGINE MOUNT, OIL COOLER TUBES, FRONT AND REAR BRAKE PADS AND ROTORS, FRONT AND REAR VALVE COVER; DINGS, DENTS, SCRAPES, AND SCRATCHES; EXPOSED WIRE (may be missing additional unidentified parts, other unidentified issues may be present).
City of Chicago photo
thanks Martin
From John Keller:
New squad-style trucks for two of the OFI cars, looks like they’re trying to get them out of the buggies into a more suitable rig.
John Keller photo
This from Tyler Tobolt:
Provided below are fire department run totals for 2023 and 2024 covering 300+ Chicago area departments .
– There are still 20 departments missing for 2024 (located at the bottom of the list, that I will update once the data is located).
– “N/A” means I didn’t have the data for the run totals for 2023.
– This link auto updates every 5-minutes.If you notice anything missing please let me know!
