Posts Tagged Bensenville

Area apparatus purchases

Aug 15

Posted by Admin in Fire Department News, New Apparatus Order | 41 Comments

This from Josh Boyajian:

River Forest

a Smeal 105′ heavy-duty quint has been purchased and waiting to be placed into service. It will be on display at FRI Friday and Saturday

Leyden FPD

a 2013 Ford F-350 Wheeled Coach ambulance has been completed and will be on display at FRI this weekend

Bensenville FPD

a 2013 Ford F-450 Wheeled Coach ambulance has been purchased and will be delivered by the end of the month

Cicero

a Pierce Dash CF pumper is being built and will be delivered in February

Bolingbrook

Has approved the purchase of two new units:

a Pierce Dash CF ladder truck
Pierce Impel engine

Chicago Ridge

a 2014 Road Rescue medium-duty ambulance on a TerraStar chassis

Wilmette

a 2013 E-One E-Max pumper will be delivered in the next few months
a 2013 Ford F-450 squad is being built at Warner Bodies and will be delivered in the next few months

Northfield

a 2013 E-One engine is being built on a Cyclone chassis which should be done by end of year

Broadview

2013 E-One pumper has been ordered. Unknown on the specs

Westchester

2013 E-One 21? custom, walk-around rescue on a Typhoon chassis is being built and will be delivered by end of year.

Palos Heights FPD

2013 E-One pumper has been ordered, unknown specs at this time.

Gurnee

2013 Ford F-450 Road Rescue Ultramedic Type I is being built and should be completed by the end of the year

Joliet

Their two new engines are completed and ready to be delivered if they weren’t already

Chicago

Fire Service Inc. is pleased to announce a multi-year contract with the City of Chicago for airport pumpers. The initial order is for three units. The new units will be E-One Cyclone custom chassis with 2000 GPM Hale pump, Fecon foam system, 1000 gallon water tank and 250 gallon foam tanks with Salisbury Stainless Steel bodies. We look forward to bringing back the E-One product family to the third largest city in the United States.

new E-ONE fire engines for O'Hare Airport

thanks Danny

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Leyden 3-11 (part 2)

Dec 8

Posted by bgshap in Apparatus on-scene, Fire, Reader submission | Comments off

Additional images from the Leyden Township 3-11 yesterday submitted by Steve Redick, Jeff Rudolph, and Larry Shapiro.

Leyden TWP FPD 3-11 All Stars Gentlemens Club

Flames are visible from a vantage on the east side of the fire after the roof was in. Jeff Rudolph photo

Westchester's E-ONE Cyclone aerial is set up with an elevated master stream at the east side of the 'A' sector. Jeff Rudolph photo

Northlake Engine 808 is positioned on the street and awaits water from an in-line operation. Jeff Rudolph photo

Another shot from the front of the address showing Westchester's master stream. Larry Shapiro photo

Elmwood Park firefighters carry a 5-inch line to Northlake Engine 808. The Elmwood Park engine is making it's way further west on Grand Avenue to find a hydrant down the street. Steve Redick photo

Leyden Quint 133 is operating on the west side of the driveway with an elevated master stream and several hand lines. Larry Shapiro photo

Firefighters work a handline at the rear of the building. Jeff Rudolph photo

An overview of the western exposure of the fire building from the vacant lot next door. Steve Redick photo

Bensenville firefighters pull hose from Engine 89 to put additional hand lines into operation to hit the many hot spots throughout the ruins. Larry Shapiro photo

Leyden TWP FPD 3-11 All Stars Gentlemens Club River Grove engine

River Grove Engine 565, a Pierce Saber, is pumping in-line to Bensenville Engine 89 in the rear sector. Steve Redick photo

Leyden TWP FPD 3-11 All Stars Gentlemens Club Bensenville Fire District Engine 89

Bensenville Engine 89, a 2002 Pierce Lance, is supplying several hand lines in the 'C' sector. Larry Shapiro photo

Leyden TWP FPD 3-11 All Stars Gentlemens Club Stone Park Quest Engine

Stone Park Engine 908, is the only E-ONE Quest engine in MABAS Division 20. It is on a hydrant east of the fire scene on Grand Avenue. Jeff Rudolph photo

A gallery of Steve Redick’s images can be seen HERE.

A gallery of Larry Shapiro’s images can be seen HERE.

Tags: All Stars Gentlemen's Club, Bensenville, Cyclone, Darley, E-ONE, Fire, HP75, Jeff Rudolph, Lance, Larry Shapiro, Leyden Township FPD, Maywood, Northlake, Pierce, Quantum, Quest, River Grove Fire Department, RK Aerials, Rosemont, Saber, Spartan, Steve Redick, Stone Park, Westchester

International RIT Training in Bensenville

Sep 21

Posted by bgshap in Fire Service News | 2 Comments

The training opportunities continue at the O’Hare Modernization Property in Bensenville. This past week, firefighters from throughout the US were joined by firefighters from several other countries to learn techniques for Rapid Intervention Team deployment. The 40-hour course was run by RICOFIRERESCUE, Inc. founded by Lt. Mike Mason from the Downers Grove Fire Department. They used three separate structures with varying scenarios. Photos showing some of the training and setup on the final day can be seen on John Tulipano’s web page HERE and another gallery including a smoky video of a rescue can be seen on Larry Shapiro’s site HERE. The scenario for the video is a firefighter trapped from a floor collapse (the setup is shown in John’s gallery) with weak floor conditions prompting the RITs to breach a wall to reach the firefighter ‘Captain Black’. Of interest is that RIT 1 is a group of firefighters from France and RIT 2 is US (english speaking) firefighters. A bi-lingual instructor translates communications into French during the exercise so that everyone is able to communicate clearly.

A firefighter from Germany enters one of the buildings as part of a RIT to rescue a trapped firefighter. Larry Shapiro Photo

Smoky conditions provided for very limited visibility during the rescue operation. Larry Shapiro Photo

The RITs carry the victim from the building. Larry Shapiro Photo

This shot shows the wall breach after the exercise was completed. Larry Shapiro photo

Tags: Bensenville, O'Hare Modernization, RICOFIRERESCUE, RIT, Shapiro, training, Tulipano

website updates

Jul 24

Posted by bgshap in Site News, updated listing | Comments off

As mentioned in a previous post, several apparatus shots have been updated on the site to complete listings which had images labeled as ‘coming soon.’

Division 1

Elk Grove Village: Ambulance 8; Ambulance 9, Ambulance 9R, Engine 9, Engine 9R; Battalion 2
Rolling Meadows: Ambulance 15R; Ambulance 16

Division 12

Itasca: Ambulance 831 and Ambulance 834

Division 20

Bensenville photos have been updated: Ambulance 78, Ambulance 79, Battalion 17, Battalion 17R, Tower 90, Engine 88

Tags: Bensenville, Division 1, Division 12, Division 20, Elk Grove Village, Itasca, Rolling Meadows, ROLM

Bensenville updated

Jun 11

Posted by bgshap in Fire Department News, updated listing | Comments off

Both of the Bensenville fire stations have been added to the site as well as the MABAS Division 20 Decon unit which lives at Bensenville Station 2 on Foster Avenue.

Bensenville Station 1 at 500 S. York Road.

One of 25 decon shower units that are dispersed throughout the state.

Tags: Bensenville, Decon, Division 20, IHC, MABAS, Modec, Shapiro

Bensenville FPD is on the site

May 7

Posted by bgshap in Fire Department News, New Listing | Comments off

The Bensenville Fire Protection District has been added to the Division 20 portion of the website. Bensenville has two stations although they used to have a third station which has been closed and will be demolished in the near future as part of the O’Hare Airport Expansion and Modernization Project. All of Bensenville’s rigs are pained black over red with the exception of Engine 86 which is their reserve piece. The fleet used to sport a white over red color scheme. The tanker and the tower ladder were repainted to match the new rigs.

Tanker 92, a 1988/1989 Ford Darley, won’t be on the roster much longer as the district has put it up for sale. They expect it to be gone during the summer.

In other Bensenville news, as of May 1st they are being dispatched by NORCOMM and no longer by Bloomingdale. The new frequency is 154.370.

Tags: Bensenville, Bloomingdale, Darley, Division 20, Ford, NORCOMM