From West Chicago Fire Protection District on Facebook:
Personnel from the West Chicago Fire Protection District are conducting the final inspection of our new ladder truck at the Seagrave Fire Apparatus plant in Clintonville, Wisconsin. Take a sneak peek! Seagrave Fire Apparatus
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West Chicago FPD photo
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This from Daniel Hynd:
West Chicago FPD worked a fire in taxpayer at 116 Main St yesterday, 5-19-24. Originally came in as an AFA, Battalion 6 had heavy smoke from the roof on his arrival. Crews found fire in the cockloft and used hand lines and Wheaton’s tower to get it in check.
Daniel Hynd photo
Daniel Hynd photo
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Daniel Hynd photo
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Found at firetruckmall.com:
2010 Pierce 100′ Tower – $395,000
- Stock#: 18346
- 2010 Pierce Arow XT RMP
- GVWR: 82,000
- Mileage: 97,525
- Engine Hours: 1,369
- Detroit Series 60 Diesel Engine
- Allison 4000 EVS Automatic Transmission
- Waterous 1500 GPM Side-Mount Pump
- 300 Gallon Tank
- Additional equipment not included with purchase unless otherwise listed.
This from Daniel Hynd:
On December 12th, 2023 at around 2pm, the Roselle Fire Dept responded to a house fire on Long Ave in unincorporated Schaumburg.
Crews were met with a fully involved, single family home on arrival. Due to limited water supply, tenders from Roselle, West Chicago, Bloomingdale, and Pingree Grove supplied Engine 64 until a hydrant was secured.
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Excerpts from nbcchicago.com:
More than 100 people were displaced and six people including a firefighter were hospitalized after a massive fire engulfed an apartment complex overnight in West Chicago.
Firefighters responded to the 28-unit apartment complex, located on Burr Oaks Drive, at approximately 1 a.m. When crews arrived, they saw two balconies on fire and one unit overtaken by flames. Crews immediately went into rescue mode as some residents, including a pregnant woman, were trapped and forced to jump.
One firefighter was transported to the hospital with smoke exhaustion.
The fire originated in an apartment unit, although the fire is believed to be accidental, the cause remains unknown.
Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:
One person was found dead after a fire early Saturday morning in the 2300-block of Barnhart Street in the Cornerstone Lakes subdivision of West Chicago. The person has not yet been identified, pending notification of next of kin.
New Business
a. Ordinance 2022-O-03. An Ordinance providing for the budget and appropriations of the West Chicago Fire Protection District, DuPage County, Illinois, for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2022, and ending May 31, 2023.
b. Ordinance 2022-O-04. An Ordinance authorizing the purchase of a 95ft Seagrave Aerialscope Mid-Mount Platform Truck from Seagrave Fire Apparatus, LLC, Clintonville, Wisconsin in an amount not to exceed $1,920,640.00.
This from Dieterich Herndobler:
While browsing 5280fire.com, I came across West Chicago’s former Rescue 9. It is now with a fire department in Mesa County, Colorado. Not sure which department as it is still looks like it did with West Chicago FPD.
ANTONIO ARCHULETA PHOTO ©
Central Orchard Mesa Volunteer Fire Department – Central Orchard Mesa Station 51 is the home for Brush 52 – 1992 International 4500 / E-One (11008) ARFF – Former West Chicago FPD, IL.
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