This from the SST Emergency Products Facebook page:
Congratulations to the Romeoville Illinois Fire Department on the purchase of a Seagrave Marauder II Pumper. We appreciate your trust in us and welcome to the Seagrave Family.
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This from Hunter Klinger:
Found on Osage ambulance website Romeoville new Ambulance 23 Type 3 Super
Warrior
Osage Ambulance photo
Osage Ambulance photo
Osage Ambulance photo
Excerpts from romeoville.org:
Earlier in the year, the Romeoville Fire Department was one of 40 police and fire departments in the country to receive a Public Safety Drone Training Grant from DARTdrones, the nation’s leading drone pilot school. This grant, which consisted of $3,500 in free training, is being put to good use. Anyone who operates a drone for professional purposes is required to undergo training and be licensed by the FAA. Fire Chief Kent Adams is a fully licensed drone pilot. This is not the first drone based grant the department has benefitted from. They purchased the drone using money from a previous grant.
“We use drones for a variety of operations,” explains Adams. “The list gets longer and longer every day. Pretty much any type of incident we have, we can use the drone to give us some aerial perspective of what’s going on.” A few of these incidents include using thermal imaging to find hot spots and advancing fire, fire investigation, search and rescue, and finding victims along the waterways. “In the past we’d need to have Chicago’s helicopter come out and fly the waterway for us because we didn’t have any aerial way of looking. Now we have the ability to do that with our drones.”
Adams says more fire and police departments are moving towards using drones, but it’s still sporadic right now.
Excerpts from the Heraldnews.com:
The Village of Romeoville announced the purchase of a LDV/Freightliner Mobile Command Center scheduled for delivery in March.
After constructing a new fire station to replace an old one, this purchase was next in line [with the help of ] a $50,000 donation from the Citgo Lemont Refinery that goes toward the purchase of a phone system, weather station system and camera system with a 39-foot mast for the mobile command center.
According to Romeoville Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Littrell, emergency personnel will have access to state-of-the-art technology. They will also be able to stay on location at an emergency scene for extended periods of time. In the past, command posts were set up in tents outside an incident area.
The vehicle will have a conference area with the capacity to seat 13 personnel and a communication center with room for three radio operators.
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From a reader:
Found footage from the Lockport Full Still in Romeoville for townhouse explosion/fire.
Firefighters respond to a house explosion in Romeoville. Video courtesy of Sam Jackson
Excerpts from ABC7Chicago.com:
Firefighters battled a fire that started from a gas leak explosion at a townhome complex in southwest suburban Romeoville.
The Romeoville Fire Department responded to the explosion at 7:30 p.m on Tuesday. Firefighters said NICOR employees were in the process of repairing a gas leak at the intersection of Strawford Court and Wespark Boulevard when the explosion occurred.
Officials said two gas company workers were injured. One of those workers is in critical condition. No one was in the building when the explosion occurred.Witnesses heard a loud explosion before seeing the building go up in flames on that street corner in the Wespark subdivision.
Two out of five of the townhome units on Strawford Court were destroyed after the fire. Several units surrounding the explosion were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Emergency personnel secured the scene around midnight and said they would remain at the site throughout the night, setting up a command center at the scene and addressing questions any residents may have.
The Village of Romeoville will be setting up a donation fund for the families on their website.
Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:
Police and fire agencies in western Will County said they feel slighted because the county is building a consolidated dispatch center for 30 agencies in eastern Will County and, if the county is paying for a new center for one group they believe it should pay for all.
The $5 million plan to add the new center when a new Sheriff’s Office facility is built this year is “generous but seriously misguided,” according to a resolution recently passed by the Bolingbrook Village Board.
But Will County officials call it efficient government, and said it is no different than spending money on major road improvements in one part of the county and not the other. Consolidation of dispatch centers has been mandated by the state.
Under a state mandate, Will County has to reduce the number of its dispatch centers from six to three. WESCOM and the City of Joliet will each continue to operate their centers, but the Will County Sheriff’s Office, Lincolnway Communications Center, Romeoville and Eastern Will County Communications Center (EASCOM) will all be consolidated into the new center at Laraway Road and Route 52 … which will include administrative offices for the county’s 911 board, which oversees all the dispatch centers.
Agencies within the Western Will County Communications Center — WESCOM — are expected to follow Bolingbrook’s resolution, which demands an equitable solution, noting that WESCOM, which dispatches calls for 21 police and fire departments from Bolingbrook to Wilmington, took on a $5 million bond issue to pay for its new dispatch center, which opened in 2014 in Plainfield.
The Lockport City Council discussed a resolution at its Wednesday night meeting. Lockport Police Chief Terry Lemming said he is happy the county is heeding a state mandate to consolidate the dispatch centers of 30 agencies to allow for better coordination, calling it a very effective way to do business.
But, on the other hand, he and other city officials are unhappy that Lockport residents, along with residents from all over the county, will have to help pay for the county’s $5 million project.
WESCOM members said the issue is equity not jealousy.
The Homer Township Fire District also is expected to pass a resolution similar to Bolingbrook’s at its May 2 meeting, to get the county’s attention, according to Fire Chief Robert Tutko … But they already have, and if the reaction during Thursday’s county board meeting is any indication, county officials are not likely to fork over any funds to WESCOM.
WESCOM built its own center in 2014 by issuing $5.1 million in bonds over 20 years and each agency is required to pay $271,000 as its share.
Bolingbrook Public Safety Director Tom Ross, said those served by WESCOM are paying twice — once for the WESCOM center, and again through the county’s use of RTA funds to build the new Sheriff’s Office facility.
“This is about being responsible to our taxpayers … We’re just asking for equity,” Ross said.
“No one is guaranteed equity. It’s hard to put a figure on circumstances like this,” said Crete Mayor Mike Einhorn, director of EASCOM, which includes 16 police and fire agencies.
“I don’t complain about what goes on in their half of the county. A majority of Will County money is spent on public works projects out there and not here. I could make the equity claim too, but that’s not how it works,” he said.
“We spend Will County money to benefit residents all over the county, whether it’s for roads or dispatch centers,” Palmer said. “People want efficient government. They want us to work together.”
WESCOM serves 44 percent of the county’s population and 21 police and fire agencies, compared to the new dispatch center, which will serve 33.7 percent of the people and 31 agencies when the three centers are consolidated. Joliet serves 21 percent of the population, but handles one-third of all calls, according to officials.
Rauter and Ross also fear they could lose member agencies to the new center … as … WESCOM was built for growth, and Romeoville residents would be better served by joining.
Currently half of Romeoville is served by Lockport Township Fire District which is part of WESCOM, and the other half by the Romeoville Fire Department. If it were part of WESCOM, it could reduce 3,600 transferred calls each year — about 10 per day, he said.
“But I can’t compete with free,” Rauter said.
Braidwood officials, who are now part of WESCOM, are thinking of moving into the new center, but Rauter hopes to meet with them and “work out their concerns.” Even if Braidwood left, it would still be required to pay its share of WESCOM’s debt for its building, he said.
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Excerpts from theHeraldNews.com:
Residents can check to see if there has been a holiday decorations-related fire in their area just by passing the local fire station. If a wreath is lit up completely red, there have been no fires associated with decorations. But if there is a white light on the wreath, it means a fire has occurred during the current holiday season.
The red wreath is one of Illinois fire agencies’ longstanding holiday traditions. It’s part of a campaign to spread safety awareness when putting up lights and other decorations around the home. The “Keep the Wreath Red” campaign was adopted 35 years ago by the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association. Now several area fire agencies are a part of the campaign.
Plainfield Fire Protection District Inspector Mary Kay Ludemann said the campaign has been working. The last time the district had to change a bulb in its wreath to white was five years ago, when a candle started a residential fire, Ludemann said. She said cooking is the biggest culprit of fires during the holidays, partly because of the amount of family gatherings.
Several other factors are leading to greater fire safety, such as flameless candles that give off a traditional candle scent and more use of artificial Christmas trees.
Romeoville Assistant Fire Chief Jon Ibrahim said technology has played a large part in reducing decoration-related fires. “It’s a way during the time of the year to remind residents to be a little extra safe,” Ibrahim said. “Accidental fires are caused by Christmas decorations, but also by using candles and disposing of the Christmas tree.”
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HOLIDAY FIRE SAFETY TIPS
• Water real Christmas trees daily and keep them at least 3 feet away from any heat source.
• After Christmas, get rid of the tree in a safe place, not in a garage, home or against the home. They are potent fire hazards when dried out.
• Use lights rated for outdoor use outdoors.• Don’t overload outlets. Have surge protectors.
• Make sure the chimney is clean before starting fires.
• Keep an eye on candles. December is peak season for candle fires.
New truck for Romeoville
Jul 21
This from Ron Wolkoff:
Romeoville purchased this stock aerial unit from Smeal.
Smeal photo
Excerpts from MySuburbanlife.com:
The Romeoville Fire Station 1 has not seen major renovations since the mid-1980s, [and] the fire station’s walls are deteriorating, paint is chipping in flakes from the roof and the concrete is cracking, Fire Chief Kent Adams said.
The Village Board Wednesday night approved demolition of the fire station at 18 Montrose Drive, and architectural and construction services for the building of a new one in its place.
“I mean, it was pretty much a pole barn when it was built,” Adams said. “We were eventually going to need a new station.”
An Oakbrook Terrace firm was hired to demolish the fire station for $103,400, an architect received a contract not to exceed $66,212, and a contract not to exceed $3 million was awarded for construction.
Assistant Village Manager Dawn Caldwell said the village has been discussing the reconstruction or renovation of the fire station for several years. “We did a lot of research on the existing building,” Caldwell said. “It made sense, due to the amount of work needed on that building, to construct a new building.” … the project will be paid by village funds saved over the years while the project was being discussed.
Necessary emergency services will be moved to an industrial space a block away while the fire station construction is taking place. The fire engine and ambulance will be housed in the temporary location along with four people. Other services and personnel, including administration, will work out of the village hall or Fire Station 3.
Here are some photos from (8/20/14) at the Romeoville hosted Fire Academy class. The class is about 75% Lyons Fire Fighters and 25% self sponsored recruits. Here is the link to more photo’s: http://codephotography.smugmug.com/Training-/Fire-Department/Romeoville-Fire-Academy-82014/i-TVJwMxQ
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