Posts Tagged Park Ridge Fire Department

3-Alarm fire in Park Ridge, 5-24-22

Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:

Dozens of residents at a Park Ridge condo complex are displaced after a fire late Tuesday significantly damaged the building and left it uninhabitable.

Just before 11 p.m. Tuesday, the Park Ridge Fire Department responded to a fire at Bristol Court Condominiums at 200 Thames Parkway.

When crews arrived, firefighters saw heavy fire blowing out of a window in a top floor unit and was quickly spreading onto the roof.

Multiple people were trapped and in need of rescue, and the building was not equipped with sprinklers. Four residents were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. One firefighter was also transported to the hospital for minor injuries and has been released.

The fire was extinguished at approximately 3:30 a.m.

thanks Rob

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Multiple injury MVA in Park Ridge, 1-16-22

Images from Tim Olk of an EMS Box Alarm in Park Ridge 1/16/22

cars damaged after crashing

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cars damaged after crashing

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cars damaged after crashing

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cars damaged after crashing

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Firefighters at crash scene

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As seen around … Park Ridge

From Chicagoland_fire_photos on instagram:

a visit to park ridge station 36 

home to;
battalion 36 
tower 36 
engine 36 
ambo 36 
ambo 36r 
Park Ridge FD Tower 36

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Box Alarm fire in Park Ridge, 5-25-21

Firefighters in Park Ridge responded to a car fire in a car port side a house at 2023 Milton Avenue in the late afternoon on Tuesday, 5/25/21. They had heavy fire upon arrival that was extending to the house. Heavy wind conditions threatened to spread flames to the adjacent houses and the Working Fire was upgraded to a MABAS Box Alarm.

Companies at the scene included all on-duty Park Ridge units plus trucks from Niles and Des Plaines. Engines at the scene included Schiller Park Engine 5 and Wheeling Engine 42 plus Northfield Squad 29, Des Plaines Squad 63, and Morton Grove Squad 4. Ambulances included North Maine Ambulance 1, Niles Ambulance 2, and Des Plaines Ambulance 62. Chief officers included North Maine Battalion 1, Des Plaines Battalion 61, Morton Grove Battalion 4, Schiller Park Battalion 5, and Niles Battalion 2. 

From Steve Redick:


 

house fire in Park Ridge IL

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New truck for Park Ridge FD (more)

From the Pierce Flickr site:

Pierce, Park Ridge, IL, 35247-1

Pierce Enforcer Ascendant tower ladder

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New truck for Park Ridge FD (more)

This from Randy Buttliere:

Park Ridge Tower 36 – Pierce job #35247
Enforcer chassis, Cummins 450, Hale 2000-GPM, Tank 500
110′ tower ladder, 35′ 2-section ground ladder
Special graphics honoring hometown high schools; Maine East Blue Demons and Maine South Red Hawks
Pierce Enforcer tower ladder

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fire department decal

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New truck for Park Ridge FD

The new Park Ridge Truck 36 as found on Facebook

Pierce Ascendant tower ladder

thanks Danny and Scott

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House fire in Park Ridge, 4-16-20

This from Steve Redick:

Park Ridge Firefighters were called to 1304 S Prospect Avenue on Thursday afternoon. 

 

Pierce Saber fire engine

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Firefighters on roof of a house

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Firefighters on roof of a house

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House fire in Park Ridge, 2-25-20

This from Steve Redick:

Took this job in Tuesday afternoon. I arrived about 10 minutes in and it was all but over. It appears they had quite a volume of fire but were able to knock it down very quickly. If you notice the Niles engine and tower ladder were set up for master stream operations but not used. The first-in Park Ridge quint was heavily damaged in a previous fire and I believe the ladder is out of service. I think it’s running without the aerial being used.
 
Steve
aftermath of house fire

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Firefighters stand by at house fire

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Pierce Dash CF PUC tower ladder

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E-ONE tower ladder at fire scene

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aftermath of house fire

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Pierce Dash CF PUC fire engine

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Pierce tower ladder

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pierce Enforcer fire engine

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Park Ridge Fire Department news (more)

Excerpts from the journal-topics.com:

After learning the extent of damages to the city’s only ladder truck in the fire at the former Marathon gas station at Northwest Highway and Oakton this summer, the fire department looked for ways to streamline the process of purchasing a replacement truck. Prices are due to go up at the beginning of the year, and this month offered a small window of time to see that 2020 prices would be higher than they wanted to pay.

The old tower ladder was scheduled to be replaced in the next fiscal year because of its age, but that postpones the year-long construction process at least six more months.

The fire truck purchasing cooperative with the Houston-Galveston Area Council in Texas offers members access to detailed specifications from many fire vehicle manufacturers and gives a chance to order directly from the manufacturer.

They determined the costs for the basic truck, and that the customizing would add approximately $200,000 for the equipment and controls.

The department came back to the December Committee of the Whole to ask for a purchase order, not to exceed $1,136,103 for a rear mount ladder truck made by Pierce Manufacturing with an Enforcer cab and chassis. The measure advanced to the Monday, Dec. 16 council meeting where it passed, 6-0.

The fire department will also be applying for grant programs to help cover the costs.

thanks Bill

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