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Prospect Heights is hiring. Three immediate spots. Starting pay $87,046. Top pay after four years $122,735
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This from Prospect Heights Fire Protection District Fire Chief Drew Smith:
The Board of Fire Commissioners has approved a new testing process to establish an eligibility list to fill full-time firefighter-paramedic vacancies. The one-page application and legal notice can be accessed on our website.
Please note that while you must be 21 years of age to accept an offer of full-time employment, there is no age restriction to apply and test. With the current collective bargaining agreement expiring at the end of this year, I anticipate that negotiations will result in higher wages.
If you are already a full-time firefighter-paramedic elsewhere and would consider retiring from that job to take a job with us, those that are TIER 1 in the pension will start here as TIER 1 required by law.
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Found at firetruckmall.com:
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1993 Pierce Arrow 100′ rear-mount platform aerial – $50,000
- Stock#: 18058
- Length: 47′
- Truck Height: 11′ 5″
- Wheelbase: 21′
- GVWR: 72,240
- Seating for 6; 3 SCBA seats
- Mileage: 42,500
- Engine Hours: 5,239
- Detroit 8V92TA 450 HP diesel engine
- Engine Brake
- Allison HD4060PR automatic transmission
- Additional equipment not included with purchase unless otherwise listed.
Pump – Tank
- Waterous CMUYBX 1500-GPM side-mount pump
- Pump heat pan
- 275-gallon polypropylene tank
- Driver’s side discharges: (2) 2 1/2″
- Crosslays/Speedlays: Crosslays: (2) 1 1/2″
- Officer’s side discharge: (2) 2 1/2″
- Driver’s side suction: (1) 6″
- Officer’s side suction: (1) 6″
- Rear suction: (1) 4″
- Deck gun included
Electrical – Lighting
- Electric reels
- Onan 75KW diesel generator
- Generator hours: 530
- Telescoping lights
Options
- Aerial hours: 1,543
- Ground ladders:
- Federal Q siren
- Maintenance records available
- All manuals from Pierce available
- Both main hydraulic lift cylinders rebuilt
- Turntable swivel ring replaced
- Torque box and frame corrosion descaled and coating applied
- 12/7 wiring from turntable to platform replaced
- Breathing air cylinders at turntable removed
Prospect Heights Fire District photo
When it was new …
Larry Shapiro photo
thanks Rob
Prospect Heights Fire District Trustee Jon Tammen
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 20, 2023
PROSPECT HEIGHTS —Today, Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 12:37 p.m. the Prospect Heights Fire Protection District was dispatched to a reported fire at 1209 N. Elmhurst Road in Prospect Heights.
Upon arrival, a significant amount of smoke was seen coming from the rear of the building. A closer look showed fire and heavy, dark smoke coming from the roof and interior. The building involved was a strip mall shopping center with 12 businesses. Several businesses adjacent to the area of the fire were filling with smoke.
All the businesses were evacuated and hoses were taken into the building to extinguish the fire. The fire rapidly spread in the ceiling and roof. Several water streams from aerial ladder trucks were used to control that spread until hoses could take over.
Due to the magnitude of the fire and potential for loss of property, the incident commander made a request for assistance using the mutual aid box alarm system – MABAS. This brought firefighters from more than a dozen other fire departments who assisted with the firefighting efforts.
No civilians were injured. One firefighter suffered non-life-threatening injuries that required medical care. The apartment complex to the rear of the building was never threatened by the fire.
The fire was brought under control and extinguished within one hour of arrival using several hose lines, four aerial apparatus water streams, and 26 fire apparatus. Firefighters spent more than three hours checking for hot spots and fire spread to ensure the fire was completely out.
All 12 businesses are displaced until hazards are resolved and repairs are made.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation
The Prospect Heights Fire Protections District reminds everyone to always have two ways to escape from their home or work place, to ensure smoke alarms are present and working, and to develop an emergency plan should their home or business be destroyed by a fire or other disaster.
Fire sprinklers save lives and property. Had this structure been equipped with fire sprinklers, the original fire may have been extinguished prior to the arrival of the fire department or at the worst, contained to the area where it had started.
This from Drew Smith:
In July of 2018 the PHFD faced its largest ever fire, and one of the largest fires in the northern suburbs, at the River Trails condos. Reaching 5 alarms, two special alarms, and an interdivisional task force, more than 200 firefithers and 50 companies fought the fire.
Fire photographer Steve Redick, a retired Chicago FD dispatcher, created this compilation of radio traffic and his photos and videos that chronicles the start to finish. The 45 minutes is worth a look.
This from Larry Shapiro:
Firefighters from Wheeling and Prospect Heights responded to an outside fire at 25 Versailles Court Sunday morning at 9:30. Wheeling Engine 23 arrived and reported a fire on the ‘D’ side of the house and upgraded the alarm to a working fire. Flames engulfed the west side of the house along with an outdoor structure, and impinged on the second floor. There was an exposure concern to the house on the ‘D’ side but the fire was contained with what was apparently only damage to the vinyl siding on the neighbor’s house.
Several lines were deployed and Tower 24 went to the roof. The fire appeared to be contained within 15 minutes.
Mutual aid on the working fire came from Mount Prospect, Buffalo Grove, Northbrook, Glenview, Lincolnshire-Riverwoods, and the North Maine FPD.
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
Larry Shapiro photo
