Posts Tagged Carol Stream Fire Department

Carol Stream house fire 2-7-14 (more)

more images from John Tulipano of Carol Stream’s house fire on Lance.

fire shooting from roof at night fire scene

John Tulipano photo

firemen battle night time house fire

John Tulipano photo

firemen covered with ice using a hose line

John Tulipano photo

fire chief Bob Hoff at a Carol Stream fire

John Tulipano photo

firemen covered with ice using a hose line

John Tulipano photo

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Carol Stream house fire 2-7-14

This from John Tulipano:

Carol Stream had a special alarm at 1337 Lance, came in as a fully-involved attached garage. Companies reported this as they arrived. When I arrived heavy smoke was pushing out the garage and 2nd floor. Companies were initiating an interior attack. After several minutes Deputy Chief 28 (Bob Hoff) ordered all companies out of the building as they had fire in the basement as well as the second floor. Flames were visible from the attic just as soon as Bloomingdale TL 23 vented the roof. An exterior attack was started using 4 hand lines  to control the fire.

fire shooting from roof at night fire scene

John Tulipano photo

chief fire officers at fire scene

John Tulipano photo

A gallery with more images is HERE.

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Carol Stream Still Alarm 10-2-13

This from Larry Shapiro:

I was at Carol Stream when a reported house fire came in and responded with the companies. The police reported smoke showing. Carol Stream Battalion 28 confirmed light smoke at 409 Thunderbird Trail which was within a mile’s drive of Station 28.

Companies handled a small fire with a pump can. The call was dispatched shortly after shift change which accounts for the firefighters that were not in gear helping the on-duty crews.

Here are a few images from the scene with a brief video.

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

Conditions on arrival. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

A firefighter who just got off duty opes the hydrant. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

A ground ladder comes off the tower. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

Carol Stream Chief Rick Kolomay brings out the command board. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

Carol Stream units on the scene.Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

Firefighters from Squad 27A approach the scene. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

The incident command board. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District at fire scene

Carol Stream Deputy Chief Bob Hoff. Larry Shapiro photo

A gallery with more images is HERE.

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Box alarm house fire in Carol Stream 7-12-13

Photos taken by Don Tessler at Carol Stream’s Box Alarm in the early hours on Friday.

From the Daily Herald:

An early Friday morning attic fire in Carol Stream left a house uninhabitable, authorities said.

Firefighters responded to reports of a structure fire at 601 Nez Percé Court after midnight Friday, according to the Carol Stream Fire Protection District.

The house sustained extensive damage.

Carol Stream Fire Department house fire at night

Don Tessler photo

Carol Stream Fire Department house fire at night

Don Tessler photo

Carol Stream Fire Department house fire at night

Don Tessler photo

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Carol Stream FPD – ambulances updated

Larry Shapiro submitted the following:

Visited Carol Stream recently and photographed all three front line medic units with the new numbering. All were at Station 28 and I was able to get a group shot as well.

I was told they are expecting a new unit on a Freightliner chassis, a Medtec demo, to replace Medic 29.

Carol Stream Fire District ambulance 27

Medic 27. 2008 IHC 4300/Life Line. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District ambulance 28

Medic 28. 2010 IHC 4300/Medtec. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District ambulance 29

Medic 29. 2006 IHC 4300/Life Line. Larry Shapiro photo

Carol Stream Fire District ambulances

All three current Carol Stream front line ambulances. Larry Shapiro photo

 

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Lombard Special Alarm 3-25-13

This from Steve Redick:

This is a place I very seldom get out to … I was halfway close so I took a ride. They were planning for something big I guess, but it was over when I arrived. I suspect some kind of machinery fire. I did manage to get some decent rig shots, and I experimented with a little fill flash too. I have never really seen the 2-piece Carol Stream Squad … kinda neat. The shots of the Lombard engine hooked up to the hydrant will make a good entry in my Suburban Rigs at Work Volume 2 someday …

 

Lombard Fire Department engine

Steve Redick photo

Addison FIre District Tower Ladder

Steve Redick photo

Lombard Fire Department engine

Steve Redick photo

Lombard Fire Department tower ladder

Steve Redick photo

Lombard Fire Department engine

Steve Redick photo

York Center Fire District Squad

Steve Redick photo

Carol Stream Fire District Squad 27

Steve Redick photo

Carol Stream Fire District Squad 27

Steve Redick photo

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West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance

We first wrote about the West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance in March of last year. After a year of implementation, the Daily Herald has an interview with Carol Stream Fire Chief Rick Kolomay about the program.

Nearly a year after its debut, an alliance of firefighting agencies in DuPage County is lauding improvements in its responses to emergencies and outlining more ways to share resources.

The West Suburban Fire/Rescue Alliance includes the Wheaton Fire Department and fire protection districts of Carol Stream, Winfield and West Chicago. It’s not a consolidation, but the group aims to build cooperation and reduce costs.

The alliance already has adopted uniform protocols for firefighters and conducts monthly multidepartment training. Now, it’s reviewing ambulance fees in each community.

Although data is not quite a year old, officials said figures from DU-COMM, a regional service that handles 911 calls for the four municipalities, indicate emergency response times have been significantly reduced since the alliance formed.

In cases of general alarm calls, the time it took for all units — three engines, three trucks, two ambulances and five command officers — to arrive at structure fires dropped an average of almost five minutes, they said.

Officials say the faster responses stem from DU-COMM refining a computer-aided dispatch system and a procedure developed by the alliance called “closest station response.”

Pre-alliance depletion policies constrained the availability of equipment, officials said.

“We said basically we’ll only send you one of what we have because we have to protect the rest of town,” Carol Stream Chief and alliance President Rick Kolomay said. “We weren’t getting all the resources to the fire as quickly as we should because we had to skip towns to keep reaching for one of these and one of those because that’s all they could give us.”

Now, the alliance also fills voids when a chief or deputy chief, fire engine, ladder truck and ambulance deploy to the headquarters station of a community with a working fire to plan for any additional emergencies that could arise.

Kolomay said the group continues to study how emergency calls break down in each town. He also left open the possibility of the closest fire station responding in all cases.

Pre-alliance depletion policies constrained the availability of equipment, officials said.

“We said basically we’ll only send you one of what we have because we have to protect the rest of town,” Carol Stream Chief and alliance President Rick Kolomay said. “We weren’t getting all the resources to the fire as quickly as we should because we had to skip towns to keep reaching for one of these and one of those because that’s all they could give us.”

Now, the alliance also fills voids when a chief or deputy chief, fire engine, ladder truck and ambulance deploy to the headquarters station of a community with a working fire to plan for any additional emergencies that could arise.

Kolomay said the group continues to study how emergency calls break down in each town. He also left open the possibility of the closest fire station responding in all cases.

The entire article is HERE.

Thanks Chris

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Carol Stream updates

This from John Tulipano:

I have a few updates to Carol Stream:
  • Station 1 is now Station 28
  • Station 2 in now Station 29
  • Station 3 is now Station 27
 All part of the DuPage Fire Alliance numbering.
I have submitted shots Engine 29 and Tower Ladder 28, both of which are new rigs, plus shots of Squad 27 and 27a with the new numbers.
Carol Stream Fire District Tower Ladder 29

Carol Stream Tower Ladder 29 is a 2011 E-ONE Cyclone with a 2,000-GPM pump, 200 gallons of water, and a 95′ tower ladder. John Tulipano photo

Carol Stream Fire District Engine 29 Alexis

Carol Stream Engine 29 is a 2011 Alexis on a Spartan chassis with a 1,500-GPM pump and 500 gallons of water. John Tulipano photo

Carol Stream Fire District Squad 27

Carol Stream Squad 27 is a 2006 Alexis on a Spartan chassis with a 1,500-GPM pump and 750 gallons of water. John Tulipano photo

Carol Stream Fire District Squad 27A

Carol Stream Squad 27A is a 2010 Alexis on a Spartan chassis. John Tulipano photo

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Carol Stream DC Hoff

The Daily Herald has an article with an interview of Carol Stream‘s Deputy Chief Bob Hoff:

When he stepped down in February as commissioner of the nation’s second-largest fire department, [Bob Hoff] planned to do some teaching at the Illinois Fire Service Institute and spend more time with his family.

Then he got a job offer to become deputy chief for the Carol Stream Fire Protection District, a 15-square-mile area that includes all of Carol Stream and parts of Bloomingdale, Winfield and Glendale Heights.

Since April, Hoff has been back at fire stations, going out on calls, overseeing training exercises and effectively serving as right-hand man to longtime friend and colleague Rick Kolomay, Carol Stream’s fire chief.

Hoff, appointed as Chicago fire commissioner by then-Mayor Richard M. Daley in June 2010, says he was planning to retire last December.

Insiders speculated Hoff’s move had to do with his opposition to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget-cutting plan to reduce fire truck staffing levels from five firefighters to four.

But Hoff says Emanuel “couldn’t have been nicer” to him, and when the mayor took office in May 2011, he asked Hoff to stay on a few months longer to see through the transition. “He was really great to me.” he said. “All the baloney you hear about is just that — baloney. He was good, he’s dynamic, he was new, he’s full of energy. He wants a lot of good things for the city. It had nothing to do with him. It had to do with me personally shifting gears.”

 Hoff first met Kolomay in 1985 in a class at the state fire academy. Kolomay was the instructor, Hoff was the student. Hoff later became an instructor himself, and the two co-authored a firefighting training manual in 2003.By 2010, with Hoff at the helm in Chicago and Kolomay in Carol Stream, the two departments were partnering in training exercises.In February, Kolomay proposed a reorganization of the district’s leadership posts. Then-Deputy Fire Chief Perry Johnson moved to a newly created civilian position, chief administrative officer, an office-based job overseeing the district’s finances, fire prevention bureau and information technology.

Hoff replaced Johnson as deputy chief, a sworn position that includes hands-on training and more day-to-day interaction with firefighters. Hoff is making a base annual salary of $115,000, slightly less than the $117,198 pension he’s collecting from Chicago.

The entire article can be found HERE.

thanks Chris

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New engine in Carol Stream

The Spartan/Alexis engine for Carol Stream has been completed. Specs and several images can be found on the Alexis site HERE. Previous posts are HERE, and HERE.

Carol Stream Fire Department Spartan Alexis Engine 29

Carol Stream Fire Department Spartan Alexis Engine 29. Alexis Fire photo

CAROL STREAM FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT #2156
CUSTOM SIDE CONTROL PUMPER

Technical Specs
• Spartan Metro Star MFD flat roof Chassis
• Cummins ISL9, 450-HP Diesel Engine
• Allison 3000 EVS Automatic Transmission
• Heavy Duty 3/16” Aluminum Body
• ROM Roll Up Doors, left side and rear, Box type flush doors, right side
• 750-Gallon Poly Tank
• Hale QMAX150, 1500-GPM Pump
• Side Control Pump Operator’s panel
• Five (5) 2 ½” Discharges, two (2) left side, one (1) right side and two (2) rear
• Two (2) 3” Discharges, one (1) right side and one (1) over pump for deck gun
• One (1) Akron Apollo Deck Gun with stream shaper, stacked tips and mounts
• Two (2) 1 ½” Mattydale Preconnects, top forward area of pump module
• One (1) 4” Discharge, rear
• One (1) 2 ½” Gated Suction, left side
• 24” Front bumper extension with 5” suction and recessed toolbox
• Two (2) EMS compartments with roll up doors and shelves, cab interior
• Running board hose well for 30-ft of 5” hose, left side
• Two (2) Dual bottle Air bottle compartments, one (1) each side wheel well area
• Two (2) individual Suction hose storage compartments, hose bed area
• Ladder storage brackets, right side
• Turtle Tile on floors and/or shelves and trays of compartments
• Two (2) Federal GHSCENE scene lights, rear
• Two (2) Air Horns, front bumper
• Kussmaul 1200 Pump Plus on-board battery charger/air compressor
• Kussmaul Super Auto Eject 120-volt shoreline
• Code 3 Electronic Siren
• Federal Q2B Siren, front bumper
• Whelen Warning Light Package
• Chevron pattern striping, rear
• 10’ 1” Overall height
• 31’ 7” Overall length
• 186” Wheelbase
• 132” Cab to Axle
• 20,000 FAWR
• 27,000 RAWR
• 47,000 GVWR

thanks Martin

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