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Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
Some Elk Grove Village Fire Department personnel and equipment moved into temporary quarters Monday at the Rainbow Falls Waterpark & Community Center as renovations are about to begin at Fire Station 7. Under an arrangement between the village and park district, Squad 7 and Ambulance 7 will respond from the Rainbow Falls facility while a $2 million renovation project takes place at the main firehouse, 101 Biesterfield Road. Park district officials chose not to open the water park this summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
All other personnel and equipment will be temporarily relocated to Elk Grove’s two other stations. The Rainbow Falls location will not be open to the public.
Construction is expected to begin in August at the 1980s-era fire station on Biesterfield. Upgrades will include a new roof above the living quarters, replacement of the heating and cooling system, replacement of the apparatus floor for improved drainage, fresh paint, and new LED light bulbs. The project is scheduled to be complete in early November.
Excerpts from the dailyHerald.com:
The Elk Grove Village Fire Department has earned accreditation from the Commission on Fire Accreditation International, making it just one of 250 agencies worldwide and 16 in Illinois to achieve that status.
To earn the designation, the department underwent a two-year process that included a community risk assessment, an update to response plans, and a review of operations by a team of outside assessors. To maintain accreditation status, the department must meet certain annual performance metrics and undergo the accreditation renewal process five years from now.
Excerpts from the journal-topics.com:
Three Elk Grove Village firefighters, Lt. John Fordon, Lt. Todd Rishling, and Andrew Laird, were awarded humanitarian service award medals by the Illinois Fire Department Mutual Aid at the Feb. 11 village board meeting. The three were sent on back-to-back deployments between May and July to rural Southwestern Illinois to assist those devastated by flooding.
A 1,000 foot-long levy broke in Calhoun County, Illinois, north of St. Louis, which runs along the Mississippi River, causing massive flooding and cutting off residents. Rishling said an ambulance ride to the nearest hospital by road took 3-1/2 hours.
The three were deployed with a team of seven in the second wave of
first respondersfirefighters sent to the area. They responded to ambulance calls by boat and provided other assistance. The rural area was so remote, it was only equipped with 911 service the year before.For Fordon, the award was his second state mutual aid humanitarian award. Rishling said Fordon endeared himself to locals who did not want assistance from anyone when he helped fill sandbags to hold back floodwaters.
Excerpts from the journal-topics.com:
Elk Grove Village officials are expected to close on a $407,000 real estate contract later this month to sell the former Fire Station No. 9 on Greenleaf Avenue to a warehousing, light assembly, and shipping company, CH Global Holdings LLC of Bensenville, doing business as TI Express. The company is consolidating its operations in Mount Prospect and Bensenville, moving them to the site of the former Elk Grove Village fire station at 1655 Greenleaf Ave.
Village officials recently cut the ribbon on two new fire stations, one of which combines the operations of fire stations No. 9 and No. 8 into one location at 700 Fargo.
In May, village trustees adopted a Cook County 6B property tax incentive recommendation to TI Express. Documents say the company will bring its 12 employees to the new location, and another 20 to 25 employees are expected to be hired within the next three years. The project should also generate 10 to 20 construction jobs.
A Cook County 6B property tax incentive lowers property tax rates for 12 years. In the first 10 years, rates are dropped from 25 percent to 10 percent, in year 11 that rises to 15 percent, then 20 percent in year 12 before returning to 25 percent in year 13. Typically, a 6B requires the building be vacant for at least 24 months before being granted a 6B, however, there is an exception for substantial renovation, which TI Express said it would make in the building.
This from Michael Maida:
I had the opportunity to drive by the old and new Elk Grove Village Station 8. I saw Engine 8 leaving on a 911.Mike Maida
Michael Maida photo
Michael Maida photo
Michael Maida photo
This from Larry Shapiro:
I was in Elk Grove Village on Wednesday and stopped by the two new fire stations to grab some photos. The landscaping was just beginning at Station 10, but Station 8 was largely completed in the front. All of the rear bay doors have a second set of screen doors that run on the same track as the solid overhead doors. One can be seen in the photo. This allows a breeze into the station while still securing the station from intruders and debris blown around by the wind.
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
Elk Grove Village firefighters are days away from moving into new firehouses after a year of construction. The stations are two of the most visible aspects of the village’s $140 million, multiyear infrastructure program.
Next Tuesday, the new $8.5 million, 15,000-square-foot Fire Station 10 at 676 Meacham Road will become operational. It replaces the former four-decades-old firehouse on site that needed a number of upgrades to remain functional. The new building increases the number of bays from three to four.
On Wednesday, a $15 million, 20,000-square-foot fire station and training tower at 700 Fargo Ave. in the village’s east side business park will open. It consolidates and replaces Fire Station 9 at 1655 Greenleaf Ave., a one-engine smaller firehouse that was 48 years old, and Fire Station 8 at 1000 Oakton St., which was 27 years old and had operational deficiencies.
In total, Elk Grove is going from four fire stations to three, including Fire Station 7 on the municipal campus at 101 Biesterfield Road.
While the final construction costs are still being tabulated, both fire stations are coming in slightly under budget. This can be attributed to economies of scale realized by doing both projects at the same time.
Earlier this week, the village board inked a sales contract with Bensenville-based CH Global Holding for the old firehouse on Greenleaf for $407,000. The trucking company plans to use the building as a maintenance garage. Last year, the village sold the Oakton station site which is being developed into a $1 billion Elk Grove Technology Park on an 85-acre parcel that includes the former sprawling Busse farm — and now the nearby firehouse property. That property sale alone was more than able to pay for the new consolidated Station 8 just blocks away. The village also is using funds from a $60 million bond issue, paid back through electric utility tax revenue.
The village will hold ribbon cuttings and public tours at both stations Saturday, May 18. First, at 9 a.m. at Station 10 on Meacham, then at 10:30 p.m. at Station 8 on Fargo. Tours of both facilities will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day.
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Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
Former Elk Grove Village Fire Chief Charles “Chuck” Henrici has died at age 83. He served in the fire department for 21 years, including eight as fire chief from 1980 to 1988. After retiring, he served on the village’s plan commission for 27 years.
Henrici started his career in 1958 as a member of the Skokie Fire Department. He joined the Elk Grove Fire Department in 1967 because, as he said, “it was a new and growing department with more challenges and opportunity.”
After retiring from the village’s department in 1988, Henrici served as chief of the River Forest Fire Department until 2002.
As a member of the village’s plan commission, he helped shaped the community through work on several developments, including the growth of Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Walmart, Home Depot, and the redevelopment of the former Grove Mall into the Town Center.
Visitation will take place from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Grove Memorial Chapel, 199 S. Arlington Heights Road in Elk Grove Village. Closing prayers at Grove will be at 10 a.m. Monday. Funeral services then will take place at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 150 Lions Drive, Elk Grove Village.
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